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
- MARCH 15, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, Mojahed, the paper of the Mojahedin of...
On March 15, Mojahed, the paper of the Mojahedin of the Iranian People reported that in the city of Khorramabad, in the Lorestan region, 18 youths previously arrested for disturbances in Ahvas, capital of the Khozestan region, were executed
- MARCH 13, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 13, according to the newspaper Khordad of...
On March 13, according to the newspaper Khordad of March 16, Ali Asghar Ghazanfarnejad Jelodar was sentenced to death and executed at Evin prison without a trial, on a charge of "war against the Islamic Republic," as he was a sympathizer of the Mojahedin
- MARCH 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In March, President Mohammad Khatami's much-heralded...
In March, President Mohammad Khatami's much-heralded visit to France was unexpectedly canceled by the Iranian Government
- FEBRUARY 16, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On February 16, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai, Khatami's...
On February 16, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai, Khatami's representative on drug issues, said "executing drug smugglers is not a suitable way to fight drugs and our ten-year experience shows that this has not been a solution
- JANUARY 19, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, according to an article in the weekly...
On January 19, according to an article in the weekly magazine Iran, Amrollah (Hamid) Raiisi was hanged in the main square of Nahavand for drug trafficking, but Raiisi also seems to have been a sympathizer of the Iranian Mojahedin of the Iranian People
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions...
The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions in Iran are unrealistic and vague
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
Public executions and executions of minors are carried...
Public executions and executions of minors are carried out in Iran
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
Clandestine executions, carried out without a court...
Clandestine executions, carried out without a court sentence, are held in the prisons and often the families of the victims are not advised
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On November 22, 1998, Dariush Forouhar, jurist, former...
On November 22, 1998, Dariush Forouhar, jurist, former Minister of Labor, and General Secretary of the Iranian Nationalist Party, and his wife, Parvaneh Eskandari-Forouhar, were found with their throats cut in their home
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On November 25, 1998, Majid Sharif, a dissident writer,...
On November 25, 1998, Majid Sharif, a dissident writer, was found dead three days after he was reported missing by his friends and relatives
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
Summary executions, kidnappings and forced disappearances...
Summary executions, kidnappings and forced disappearances at the hands of death squads have occurred in Iran from 1996 onwards
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers...
Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers since 1989