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 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
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On December 9, 1998, another two writers, Mohammad...
On December 9, 1998, another two writers, Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Ja'afar Pouyandeh, activists belonging to the Iranian writers association "Kanoon-e-Nevisandegan," were found dead on the edge of a road in Tehran
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes include adultery, apostasy, prostitution,...
Capital crimes include adultery, apostasy, prostitution, drug offenses, and the production and distribution of pornographic audio and video material
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In 1999, the forced disappearances at the hands of...
In 1999, the forced disappearances at the hands of death squads continued, arousing so much indignation and anger in the country that an inquiry was opened by the Iranian Government itself
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In January, the Government arrested several secret...
In January, the Government arrested several secret service agents without giving the number and, subsequently, appointed a commission of inquiry to establish to what degree political leaders were implicated