Iran
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- theocratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 1979, revised in 1989 to extend presidential power
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Sharia law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Shia majority; 10% Sunni; Christian, Jewish, Bahá'í, and Zoroastrian minorities
From the country
- FEBRUARY 11, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRANIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER INCLUSION IN GROUP TRIAL
an Iranian man arrested more than a month before Iran's June election was sentenced to death after being included in a mass trial over postelection protests.
- FEBRUARY 10, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: 7 DEATH PENALTIES FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING CONFIRMED
the Head of the Kerman Revolutionary Court in Iran said that death sentences for seven out of 24 members of a drugs trafficking band were confirmed by the Appeals Court.
FEBRUARY 9, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH OVER ANTI-GOVERNMENT RIOTS
an Iranian has been condemned to death for anti-government riots at the
- FEBRUARY 7, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN'S MOURNING MOTHERS: "STOP THE EXECUTIONS"
Mourning Mothers, a group of wives and mothers who have lost their spouses or children during the post-elections protests in Iran objected to the executions of political protesters.
FEBRUARY 6, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: SHIRIN EBADI'S SAYS DEATH TRIAL UNFAIR
Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, 62, said that a 19 year old man
FEBRUARY 2, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN TO EXECUTE NINE PROTESTERS 'SOON': JUDICIARY OFFICIAL
Iran will "soon execute" nine people arrested during anti-government protests for seeking to topple the
JANUARY 30, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR RAPE
Two young men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison around noon.
JANUARY 29, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MULLAHS' GUARDIAN COUNCIL SECRETARY CALLS FOR MORE EXECUTIONS
Ahmad Jannati, Secretary of the iranian clerical regime’s Guardian Council and a leading figure in the faction affiliated to Khamenei, reiterated in his Friday prayers sermon on the need to uphold the “velayat-e faqih” (absolute rule of clergy), State-run
JANUARY 28, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO POST-ELECTION 'RIOTERS' HANGED
Two of the people who have been sentenced to death in connection to the post-election protests in Iran, were hanged early this morning.
JANUARY 27, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: CONVICTED KILLER OF PROSECUTOR HANGED IN PUBLIC
Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of murdering a top judiciary official in the central city of Isfahan, Fars
- JANUARY 21, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: BROTHER OF GANG LEADER TO BE EXECUTED
Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of opposition gang leader Abdolmalek Rigi, was sentenced to death in Iran.
JANUARY 21, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN HANGED IN ARDEBIL
One man was hanged in the prison of Ardebil, northwestern Iran, reported the official Iranian news agency