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 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
- SEPTEMBER 28, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On September 28, a crowd of about 2,000 people gathered...
On September 28, a crowd of about 2,000 people gathered outside the gates of Tehran University to condemn 2 students and the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, whose pluralistic policies have come under increasing fire from angry conservatives and
- SEPTEMBER 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On September 11, an Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced...
On September 11, an Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced 4 people to death and more could face the death penalty for pro-democracy protests in July
- SEPTEMBER 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate...
On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate 100 million rials ($57,000) for the "revolutionary execution" of Hossein Baqerzadeh, a London-based human rights activist, if any ranking cleric issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning him to
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In September, a court ordered the reformist Iranian...
In September, a court ordered the reformist Iranian newspaper Neshat to stop publishing because it had run articles seen as questioning a central principle of Islamic justice and challenging the authority of Iran's supreme clerical leader and, in particul