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
- APRIL 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. AFGHAN PRISONER HANGED IN CENTRAL IRAN
an Afghan man was hanged in central Iran in the early hours of the day, Iran’s official news agency reported.
- APRIL 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR KILLING LOCAL COMMANDER
a “young man” was hanged in the central city of Isfahan charged with killing a local police commander.
- APRIL 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
the Iranian regime's state-controlled media reported that two prisoners...
the Iranian regime's state-controlled media reported that two prisoners...
- APRIL 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. USE OF DEATH PENALTY CONTINUES INCREASING
the Iranian regime's state-controlled media reported that 15 prisoners were sentenced to death in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) and that death sentences for three other prisoners in Fars Province (southern Iran) had been upheld.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TEN 'CONVICTED MURDERERS' HANGED
ten men convicted of murder were hanged in a prison in the Iranian capital.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the execution sentence of a young man only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the execution sentence of a young man only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
the execution sentence of a man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B.,
the execution sentence of a man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B.,
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
two “young men”, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging in Iran
two “young men”, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging in Iran
- APRIL 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HUSBAND
Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a 35-year-old woman, Fatemeh Haghighatpajouh who killed her husband, Bahman, after he raped her 15-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. Only the intervention of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seye
- APRIL 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a court in Tehran, Iran, sentenced 19-year-old Faraz A. to hanging.
a court in Tehran, Iran, sentenced 19-year-old Faraz A. to hanging.
- APRIL 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. GOVERNMENT DENIES EXECUTING POLITICAL PRISONERS
Iran's justice minister rejected an accusation that the Islamic regime was executing political prisoners and dismissed such concerns as "sheer lies".
- APRIL 17, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Ali “M”, 59...
a man, identified only as Ali “M”, 59...