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
- OCTOBER 16, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ANNOUNCEMENT OF END OF CHILD EXECUTIONS A WELCOME STEP
Amnesty International calls on the Head of Iran’s Judiciary to apply with immediate effect today’s
- OCTOBER 15, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the western town of Doroud in Lorestan province,
- OCTOBER 13, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER
Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the central city of Isfahan...
- OCTOBER 13, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS THREE FOR DRUG DEALING IN SOUTHEAST PROVINCE
the public relations unit of the Sistan-Baluchestan Province judiciary department in Iran announced that according to a verdict issued by the Zahedan Islamic Revolution Court...
OCTOBER 6, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MAN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A convicted drug trafficker was hanged in prison in the northern Iranian city of Hamedan, Etemad
- OCTOBER 3, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. A MAN HANGED IN HAMADAN
the state run news agency ISCA news reported that the Iranian regime has hanged a man identified only by his first name as Nosrat A., 43, in the western city of Hamadan
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. APPEAL FOR SUSPENSION OF EXECUTIONS IN REFORMIST NEWSPAPER
the reformist Iranian newspaper Kargozaran published a public appeal asking the chief magistrate to suspend the execution of six Kurdish activists.
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. APPEAL FOR SUSPENSION OF EXECUTIONS IN REFORMIST NEWSPAPER
the reformist Iranian newspaper Kargozaran published a public appeal asking the chief magistrate to suspend the execution of six Kurdish activists.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. 21 YEAR OLD MAN HANGED IN KERMANSHAH PRISON
a 21 year old man identified as Homayon Shabestari was hanged in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
Mahmood Matin and Arash Basirat, sentenced for apostasy...
Mahmood Matin and Arash Basirat, sentenced for apostasy...
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. ANOTHER JUVENILE ON DEATH ROW
in Iran, a young man identified as Mahyear was sentenced to death for a crime he allegedly committed when 17, the state-run daily Kargozaran reported
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN ACCUSED OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Nemat Safavi, arrested almost three years ago at the age of 16, was condemned to death by a court in Ardebil, in the northwest Iranian Azerbaijan region.