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 13, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
according to the official Iranian Fars news agency...
according to the official Iranian Fars news agency...
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER
a man identified only as M. Kh., who stabbed his mother...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2007IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. SEVEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged seven men in public who were convicted of drug trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN EXECUTES THREE AHWAZI ARABS
the Iranian regime executed three Ahwazi Arab political prisoners just days after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, visited Iran.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN HANGS TWO FOR RAPE
Iran hanged two convicted rapists separately in the Shiite religious
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. EU CALL ON IRAN TO PUT OFF ALL EXECUTIONS
the Presidency of the EU declared on the imminent execution in
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - MAN EXECUTED IN THE KURDISH CITY OF URMIYE
Islamic Republic authorities executed Mohammad Reza Shojai Niko in the Eastern Kurdish...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2007IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. TWO EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged two drug traffickers in its southern port city of Bandar Abbas
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
four offenders were put to death in the city of Shiraz, Iran, after being convicted
four offenders were put to death in the city of Shiraz, Iran, after being convicted
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
Seventeen drug smugglers were executed in the iranian province of Khorasan Razavi, the Web site of state broadcaster IRIB said.
Seventeen drug smugglers were executed in the iranian province of Khorasan Razavi, the Web site of state broadcaster IRIB said.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: IMMINENT HANGING OF BOY WHO COMMITTED A CRIME WHEN 15
the death sentence for a boy in Iran who had committed a crime when he was only 15 has shocked human rights organizations and activists.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER IN PUBLIC OUTSIDE TEHRAN
Iran hanged a convicted murderer in public in a town just south of the capital Tehran...