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
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian woman, convicted of murdering her husband...
An Iranian woman, convicted of murdering her husband in complicity with her paramour, has ended up at the gallows in Tehran's Qasr Prison
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two Iranians have been sentenced to death and 23 of...
Two Iranians have been sentenced to death and 23 of their accomplices given jail terms for operating a prostitution ring in the holy city of Qom
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Tehran's Justice administration hit back at those...
The Tehran's Justice administration hit back at those opposing the public execution of the court sentences, saying their opposition is "politically-biased"
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The reformist Iranian journalist, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,...
The reformist Iranian journalist, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, serving a 30-month jail term since April 2000 for allegedly insulting Islam, was freed on bail, sources close to him said
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for shooting of a mother...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers one week after his brother ended up at the gallows on the same charge
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran publicly hanged a man for kidnapping and raping...
Iran publicly hanged a man for kidnapping and raping a teenage girl
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The European Union held its highest-level meeting with...
The European Union held its highest-level meeting with Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, pressing for new economic ties in defiance of America's insistence on sanctions against companies investing there
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers
- AUGUST 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed...
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed in Tehran's Qasr Prison at dawn
- AUGUST 29, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A young Iranian bandit, convicted of having stabbed...
A young Iranian bandit, convicted of having stabbed to death his foreman, ended up hanging on the gallows
- AUGUST 19, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Abbas Makhyuri,...
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Abbas Makhyuri, a man convicted of murdering his cousin and her four-year-old son, was publicly hanged at dawn
- AUGUST 18, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Hamid Qorbanipur...
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Hamid Qorbanipur and Sa'id Moradian, convicted of murdering a teacher, were publicly hanged in the western city of Lorestan