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
- JANUARY 19, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hamid Karafi was hanged in public in Karaj, near Tehran,...
Hamid Karafi was hanged in public in Karaj, near Tehran, the Farsi language newspaper Ettelaat reported
- JANUARY 17, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death in Ghom, Iran, the Farsi...
A man was sentenced to death in Ghom, Iran, the Farsi language newspaper Keyhan reported
- JANUARY 16, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A murderer, convicted of killing his son and wife,...
A murderer, convicted of killing his son and wife, was publicly hanged in the northwestern city of Nir, in Iran's Ardabil Province
- JANUARY 16, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A 25-year-old man was executed in Ghazvin, Iran
A 25-year-old man was executed in Ghazvin, Iran
- JANUARY 14, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran executed four men, one of them in public
Iran executed four men, one of them in public
- JANUARY 14, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death in Ghom, Iran
A man was sentenced to death in Ghom, Iran
- JANUARY 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Yousef Moini, a bank robber, was hanged in public in...
Yousef Moini, a bank robber, was hanged in public in the northeastern city of Mashhad
- JANUARY 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Mostafa K
Mostafa K
- JANUARY 11, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Canada's Supreme Court ruled that refugees who face...
Canada's Supreme Court ruled that refugees who face torture in their homelands "generally" cannot be deported there, unless the evidence shows that their continued presence in Canada poses a serious security risk to the country
- JANUARY 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hamid Reza R
Hamid Reza R
- JANUARY 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's hardline revolutionary court began the trial...
Iran's hardline revolutionary court began the trial in closed session of 15 Iranian activists charged with "conspiring to overthrow the Islamic system"
- JANUARY 6, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man was publicly hanged for murdering a...
An Iranian man was publicly hanged for murdering a woman and two others were hanged for rape, newspapers said