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 8, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Union of Kurdistan Revolutionaries (UKR), an Iranian...
The Union of Kurdistan Revolutionaries (UKR), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, accused Turkey of handing over 16 Iranian Kurdish dissidents to the Tehran government, putting their lives at risk
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's supreme court has overturned the death sentences...
Iran's supreme court has overturned the death sentences of six men convicted of Islamist vigilante murders (see 'The death penalty for violent crimes' May 11, 2003)
- AUGUST 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged 10 drug smugglers and armed robbers in...
Iran hanged 10 drug smugglers and armed robbers in the southern province of Kerman, the conservative Jam-e Jam newspaper reported
- AUGUST 21, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranian men were hanged in prison in Karaj, western...
Three Iranian men were hanged in prison in Karaj, western Tehran, for drug trafficking, a government-sponsored daily reported
- AUGUST 19, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
A statement from the Kerman province judiciary said...
A statement from the Kerman province judiciary said that "Mohammad-Zaman-Q
- JULY 31, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The government daily Iran reported that two young Iranians...
The government daily Iran reported that two young Iranians found guilty of killing nine women after robbing them in the eastern town of Arak were handed multiple death sentences
- JULY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation...
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation to the Commission and the Council regarding the recent execution of a university student in Iran
- JULY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation...
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation to the Commission and the Council regarding the recent execution of a university student in Iran
- JULY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Two Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran's...
Two Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran's Ghasr prison, the government daily Iran reported
- JULY 22, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
"Several days ago, the Tabriz Revolutionary Court ruled...
"Several days ago, the Tabriz Revolutionary Court ruled that a leader of the student movement, Ms Faramaz Mohammadi, be executed," the Azerbaijani newspaper Xalq Qazeti reported
- JULY 19, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian newspaper Iran web site reported that the...
The Iranian newspaper Iran web site reported that the death sentences of five people were to be carried out in public on the 19th and 20th of July
- JULY 1, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Two men, found guilt of armed robbery and rape, were...
Two men, found guilt of armed robbery and rape, were hanged publicly in the south-western Iranian province of Khuzestan, the conservative evening daily al-Kahyan reported