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
- NOVEMBER 6, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Convicted criminal charged with rape, drug trafficking...
Convicted criminal charged with rape, drug trafficking and extortion was hanged in a Tehran prison after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence
- OCTOBER 15, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Lak, convicted of kidnapping a three-year-old...
Mohammad Lak, convicted of kidnapping a three-year-old Afghan girl in 1999 and Abbas Qomi, convicted of abducting infant girls were publicly executed by hanging at Qom, south of the capital
- OCTOBER 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 1, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
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- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Seven members of a "terrorist network" in Iran "sponsored...
Seven members of a "terrorist network" in Iran "sponsored by the Iraqi Baath party" were sentenced to death, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Amir Sadami, 21, and Morteza Abdollahi 22, were publicly...
Amir Sadami, 21, and Morteza Abdollahi 22, were publicly hanged in the north-western province of Qazvin
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The Kar-o Kargar reported that authorities had executed...
The Kar-o Kargar reported that authorities had executed the ex-husband of a university professor in the southern Kerman province for shooting her to death last year
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Bahman Savari, 22, was publicly hanged in the south-western...
Bahman Savari, 22, was publicly hanged in the south-western city of Ahvaz for killing a policeman
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Masoud Eslami, a drug addict who had killed his 53-year-old...
Masoud Eslami, a drug addict who had killed his 53-year-old aunt last year and stole her gold, was executed by hanging in Tehran's Qasr prison
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Qolam Bandak was hanged in Qasr prison on charges of...
Qolam Bandak was hanged in Qasr prison on charges of having beaten to death a 22-year-old inmate
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Noruzian-Tabrizi was executed by hanging in...
Hassan Noruzian-Tabrizi was executed by hanging in the eastern city of Mashhad for murdering his pregnant wife in 1997
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Jalil Badali, Ezatollah Badali and Sedqali Shokati...
Jalil Badali, Ezatollah Badali and Sedqali Shokati were hanged after Iran's Supreme Court approved the death sentences imposed on them