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, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian law imposes the death penalty for possession...
Iranian law imposes the death penalty for possession of more than 30 grams of heroin or five kilos (11 pounds) of opium
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Citizens continued to be tried and sentenced to death...
Citizens continued to be tried and sentenced to death in the absence of sufficient procedural safeguards
- JANUARY 1, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
At least 250 cases of whippings were carried out in...
At least 250 cases of whippings were carried out in Iran in 2001, according to Amnesty International
- DECEMBER 7, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
In their Iran Report 2001, Human Rights Watch stated...
In their Iran Report 2001, Human Rights Watch stated "The (Iranian) government continued to make frequent use of the death penalty after trials which failed to comply with international standards
- DECEMBER 4, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
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- NOVEMBER 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Morad Ali Heydari was publicly executed after being...
Morad Ali Heydari was publicly executed after being convicted of killing two relatives with a firearm
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The daily newspaper Kayhan reported that Mohammad Taqi...
The daily newspaper Kayhan reported that Mohammad Taqi Amini was executed by hanging for his role in a multimillion dollar fraud, it did not specify the date of his execution
- NOVEMBER 18, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was hanged in the south-eastern province of Kerman...
A man was hanged in the south-eastern province of Kerman after his death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court
- 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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