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
- AUGUST 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Three armed robbers, sentenced to death by a revolutionary...
Three armed robbers, sentenced to death by a revolutionary court, were hanged in public at dawn
- AUGUST 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A man named Vali Hezar-Asb, from the Khavaran District...
A man named Vali Hezar-Asb, from the Khavaran District of Tehran, was publicly hanged in a football field opposite the Khavaran cultural centre
- AUGUST 15, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Reza Nadi, 21, and Kazem Alayemi, 35, were publicly...
Reza Nadi, 21, and Kazem Alayemi, 35, were publicly hanged after being convicted of having murdered three jewellers and one student
- AUGUST 12, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian news agency IRNA reported that a 31 year old,...
Iranian news agency IRNA reported that a 31 year old, unnamed Iranian man, who had been sentenced to death for murder was publicly hanged at dawn
- AUGUST 6, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man arrested on suspicion of killing prostitutes...
An Iranian man arrested on suspicion of killing prostitutes in the northeastern city of Mashhad admitted to sexually molesting his victims prior to strangling them to death
- AUGUST 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death for clashes...
An armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death for clashes with Iranian police and carrying narcotics, was hanged in the northeastern city of Sabzevar in Khorasan Province, the Persian daily Jam-e Jam said
- AUGUST 4, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was hanged in the central city...
A convicted murderer was hanged in the central city of Isfahan, the sixth execution made public in less than a week, the conservative Qods daily reported
- AUGUST 2, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A gang of five Iranians, sentenced to death for kidnapping...
A gang of five Iranians, sentenced to death for kidnapping and rape, were hanged in Gorgan, in the Golestan province in northern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported
- JULY 28, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced...
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court for illegal possession of prohibited drugs, was hanged at dawn in northeastern Iran
- JULY 25, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man, sentenced to death for murder, was...
An Iranian man, sentenced to death for murder, was hanged in public in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, a local source said
- JULY 25, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
MP Abdolnaser Qavami, head of the Majlis Judicial Committee,...
MP Abdolnaser Qavami, head of the Majlis Judicial Committee, said Islamic punishments should not be carried out in public
- JULY 24, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's supreme court approved the death sentence for...
Iran's supreme court approved the death sentence for three customs officials accused of being "economic terrorists," the afternoon Kayhan paper reported