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 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists...
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar and spokesman for the writer Mohammad Puyandeh, stated that "The relatives oppose the death sentence because they do not seek revenge
- JANUARY 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Judge Mohammad Reza Aqiqi of the Tehran military court...
Judge Mohammad Reza Aqiqi of the Tehran military court gave death penalty to Ali Roshani, Mahamoud Jafarzadeh and Ali Mohseni three former government agents for the murder of two elderly nationalists, Darioush and his wife Parvaneh Forouhar, and two write
- JANUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in...
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed, state radio reported
- JANUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed, state radio reported.
- JANUARY 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public...
Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public stoning for a woman convicted of murdering her husband with the help of her lover
- JANUARY 10, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hamid Heydari, a convicted murderer was hanged in public...
Hamid Heydari, a convicted murderer was hanged in public in Tehran
- JANUARY 10, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Judiciary Chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi calling...
Iran's Judiciary Chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi calling for merciless and powerful action against drug-trafficking which has paralysed Iran said that currently 800 drug inmates have been sentenced to death
- JANUARY 7, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's...
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's Qasr prison, for killing his wife, Fatemeh, 24, and his 19-month old daughter, Melika, stabbing them 41 times "in order to satisfy his lust and that of his lover Mojgan"
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Stoning is a pre-Islamic punishment
Stoning is a pre-Islamic punishment
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime is subjected...
Plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime is subjected to death sentence under Iran's Islamic penal code
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Since 1991 Iran has executed around 5,000 drug pushers
Since 1991 Iran has executed around 5,000 drug pushers
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Secretary of the Islamic Human Rights Committee Hasan...
Secretary of the Islamic Human Rights Committee Hasan Zia'ifar dismissed complaints lodged against a report , published on 17 October 2000, by the special representative of the UN Commission on Human Rights Maurice Copithorne to the effect that executions