Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- 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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Zeinali executed in Ghezel-Hesar on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Sheikhi executed in Isfahan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahrokh (Roghayeh) Mirzaei, executed in Isfahan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Babayi hanged in Tabriz on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Ahangari executed in Malayer on September 28
SEPTEMBER 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men hanged in Zanjan on September 27
Fateh Shafiei, Hassan Mehdipour, Aref Darousti
SEPTEMBER 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahboubeh Shabani, sentenced to death
A 'protester'
SEPTEMBER 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Dezful, Isfahan and Ahvaz
Emad Mirdoraghi, Mostafa Karimzadeh, and Seyed Sadegh Mousavi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Naderi sentenced to Death
For espionage
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Emad Mirdoraghi and Mohammadreza Aziz-Haji executed in Dezful on September 23
SEPTEMBER 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ahvaz e Tabriz
Hossein Ghazlavi, Karim Majdam, Jalil Salamat, and Eskandar Heydarzadeh
SEPTEMBER 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdoljalil Bazrkaran executed in Ahvaz on September 22