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 1, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Jewish community has shrunk to some 35,000 members...
Iran's Jewish community has shrunk to some 35,000 members from more than 80,000 before the 1979 Islamic revolution as many emigrated to the United States and Israel
- DECEMBER 17, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On December 17, The General Assembly condemned, for...
On December 17, The General Assembly condemned, for the forty-fifth time, the Iranian Government with regard to human rights
- DECEMBER 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In December, a juvenile accused of murder escaped execution...
In December, a juvenile accused of murder escaped execution after having been pardoned by the father of the victim
- NOVEMBER 23, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On November 23, the Tehran morning newspapers, including...
On November 23, the Tehran morning newspapers, including Sobhe Emrooz, published a statement by the presiding judge of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran Gholamhossein Rahbarpoor, in which he announced that 3 of the students arrested during the demonstrati
- NOVEMBER 13, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On November 13, Khordad reported that Ahmad Batebi,...
On November 13, Khordad reported that Ahmad Batebi, a fine arts student at the Tehran University, had been condemned to death
- NOVEMBER 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On November 11, Iranian representative Mostafa Alaie,...
On November 11, Iranian representative Mostafa Alaie, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), said that initiatives at the international level on human rights should be guided by the principl
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
At the beginning of November, 10 people were hanged...
At the beginning of November, 10 people were hanged in a single day in Arak, on charges of drug trafficking
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In November, the entire Government was implicated in...
In November, the entire Government was implicated in the scandal that broke over political killings with the complicity of secret service officials
- OCTOBER 20, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On October 20, 4 students faced the death penalty on...
On October 20, 4 students faced the death penalty on charges of insulting the Twelfth Imam, one of the holiest Shiite figures in Islam, by publishing a satirical play in The Wave, an obscure university magazine with about 150 readers
- OCTOBER 16, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On October 16, a court ordered a 33-year old woman,...
On October 16, a court ordered a 33-year old woman, identified only as Masoumeh, to be stoned for adultery in accordance with the country's Islamic laws and gave her a 15-year jail term for complicity in her husband's murder
- OCTOBER 16, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On October 16, the execution of Majid Mehrparvar, a...
On October 16, the execution of Majid Mehrparvar, a gang leader accused of killing at least 3 truck drivers, was reported in Tehran
- OCTOBER 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In October, a youth of 17 and his accomplice, aged...
In October, a youth of 17 and his accomplice, aged 19, were publicly hanged in a square for having killed two people in an attempt to rob them