Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- 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
OCTOBER 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Bazvand executed in Khorramabad on October 7
OCTOBER 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salar Rashidzadeh executed in Yasuj on October 7
OCTOBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Babaeian Sentenced to Death
A ‘protester’
- OCTOBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Barzou Rezaei Sentenced to Death
A ‘protester’
OCTOBER 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raisi executed in Isfahan on October 5
2 ‘protesters’
OCTOBER 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Parvaneh executed in Shirvan on October 5
- OCTOBER 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahmoud Alishahi and Samad Hojatpour executed in Shiraz on October 4
OCTOBER 3, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Sharifi executed in Urmia on October 3, 2026
OCTOBER 3, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - ‘Protester’ Siavash Jamshidi-Kheirabadi Hanged on October 3
- OCTOBER 1, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Nami Sentenced to Death
A ‘protester’
- OCTOBER 1, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 'protesters' Sentenced to Death
Khosrow Mohammadiniya, Masoud Tushmalani, and Sirvan Shabani
SEPTEMBER 30, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Amir Gheshlaghi executed in Arak on September 30