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
NOVEMBER 29, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN SENTENCES THREE TO DEATH FOR MOSQUE BOMBING
Iran has sentenced three men convicted of a mosque bombing which left 14 people dead in the
NOVEMBER 29, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN CONFIRMS STONING SENTENCE AGAINST ADULTERESS
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed a sentence of death by stoning against a woman convicted of adultery in
- NOVEMBER 26, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: IMMINENT EXECUTION OF FARZAD KAMANGAR
Farzad Kamangar, the Iranian Kurdish teacher and social worker sentenced to death on, according to his lawyer, "absolutely zero evidence", could be hanged on November 26, 2008 ITUC warned.
NOVEMBER 26, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN HANGS 10 MURDERERS IN MASS EXECUTION
Iran hanged nine men and a woman convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison, the Fars news agency reported.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER
Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the western city of Borujerd. The Kayhan newspaper
- NOVEMBER 24, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PRISON FOR MURDER
Iran executed a man convicted of murder in a prison in the western city of Shahr-e Kord, the
- NOVEMBER 24, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
a man was hanged in the central prison of Mashad...
a man was hanged in the central prison of Mashad...
NOVEMBER 24, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. THREE HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged three men convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the
- NOVEMBER 23, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: FOUR PRISONERS TRANSFERRED TO SOLITARY FOR HANGING
four prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their execution at a later date in the notorious Gohardasht prison, 40 kilometer west of Tehran, Iran.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: CHILD OFFENDER FACING EXECUTION
Iranian child offender Reza Alinejad is at imminent risk of execution for a crime he committed at the age of 17, Amnesty International claimed.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a newspaper reported.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS A MAN FOR MURDER
Iran hanged a man according to a Fars news agency report.