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
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Hamid Hosna’i, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Hamid Hosna’i, for drug-related crime.
- AUGUST 26, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. DRUG TRAFFICKER PUBLICLY HANGED
an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was publicly hanged in the south-eastern town of Iranshahr...
- AUGUST 26, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s minister of intelligence said that the death sentence...
Iran’s minister of intelligence said that the death sentence of six people involved in the Ahvaz disturbances had been endorsed by the Supreme Court.
- AUGUST 24, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED PUBLICLY FOR ARMED ROBBERY
an Iranian man convicted of repeated armed robberies and rape was publicly hanged in the southeastern town of Khash.
- AUGUST 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Bahram...
a man, identified only as Bahram...
- AUGUST 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Morteza N., 20...
a man, identified only as Morteza N., 20...
- AUGUST 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, identified only as Karim B., for drug-related crime
Iran hanged a man, identified only as Karim B., for drug-related crime
- AUGUST 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
it was reported that an Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in the northern town of Sari.
- AUGUST 15, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran. International outcry saved a woman sentenced to death in Iran
following an international campaign to save the life of Ashraf Kalhori, a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, the judiciary stopped the sentence being carried out.
- AUGUST 15, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE MEN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
three Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in public in the southeastern cities of Zabol and Zahedan.
- AUGUST 14, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Miyarash, 23...
a man, identified only as Miyarash, 23...
- AUGUST 12, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR RAPE, MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of raping and murdering a five-year-old boy in March 2004 was hanged in public in the north-western city of Tabriz, the Kayhan newspaper reported.