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
- MAY 31, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE HANGED FOR MURDER, RAPE
an Iranian man convicted of murder and two others convicted of rape were hanged in Tehran's Evin prison. The man convicted of murder, identified as Alireza, had driven over and killed three people with his bus. He admitted doing so because he was angry af
- MAY 30, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Mohsen M., 22...
a man, identified only as Mohsen M., 22...
- MAY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR ARMED ROBBERY
an Iranian man convicted of armed robbery was hanged in public in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
- MAY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BLASTS IRAN’S HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Amnesty International blasted human rights abuses in Iran in 2005 in its annual report on the state of the world's human rights.
- MAY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran publicly hanged Hamed Parvan...
Iran publicly hanged Hamed Parvan...
- MAY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Norooz...
a man, identified only as Norooz...
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
Majid Sogan was hanged in public in the western Iranian city of Khoramabad for stabbing a friend to death two years previously.
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO CONVICTED MURDERERS HANGED
it was reported that an Iranian woman and a foreign man who were convicted of murder had been hanged in recent days in Iran’s north-eastern province of Khorasan Razavi.
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was hanged in public in the southern town of Jahrom.
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PRISON FOR DRUG DEALING
it was reported that an armed narcotics smuggler, Masoud Naroui, was hanged in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
- MAY 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR KIDNAPPING AND ARMED ROBBERY
an Iranian man convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery was hanged in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
- MAY 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that 18-year-old Mehdi was sentenced to death in Iran in March 2006 for killing a man in Robat Karim...
it was reported that 18-year-old Mehdi was sentenced to death in Iran in March 2006 for killing a man in Robat Karim...