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
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shams al-Din Abbasi Kay executed in Urmia on November 7
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hawre Jahanara executed in Urmia on November 7
NOVEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Abdali sentenced to death
Political prisoner
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - NCRI monthly report: Iran’s Regime Executed 285 in October 2025
1,471 executions in 10 months of 2025
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris released
Another episode in Iran's notorious ‘hostage strategy’
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Arman executed in Yazd on November 5, 2025
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Zare’ and Faez Abousheh executed in Shiraz on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Karimi executed in Kermanshah on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Qobad Olfati executed in Ilam on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Mohammadi executed in Esfarayen on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Zare and Salim Samadi executed in Shiraz on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Astan executed in Kermanshah on November 5