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
- JULY 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's...
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's issues, defended the practice of stoning women to death for the crime of adultery, saying the punishment is correct under Islamic sharia law and protects the institution of the family
- JULY 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's...
Zahra Shojaei, Iran's presidential adviser on women's issues, defended the practice of stoning women to death for the crime of adultery, saying the punishment is correct under Islamic sharia law and protects the institution of the family
- JULY 6, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Reza P
Reza P
- JULY 5, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in the Iranian capital Tehran passed a death...
A court in the Iranian capital Tehran passed a death sentence on Farhad Rahmanpour
- JULY 4, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Shahram was condemned to die by a court in Tehran
Shahram was condemned to die by a court in Tehran
- JULY 3, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted armed robbers were hanged in public in...
Two convicted armed robbers were hanged in public in the central Isfahan city
- JULY 3, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ali A
Mohammad Ali A
- JULY 2, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Tehran court sentenced three men - Keyvan Razaghi,...
An Tehran court sentenced three men - Keyvan Razaghi, Kamran Razaghi and Hamdollah Zaheri - to death
- JULY 1, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Two men were condemned to death in Mashdad, an Iranian...
Two men were condemned to death in Mashdad, an Iranian newspaper reported
- JUNE 30, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was hanged inside a prison in Karaj, near Tehran,...
A man was hanged inside a prison in Karaj, near Tehran, for murder
- JUNE 30, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Police Commander in Khorasan Province Brig-Gen Eskandar...
Police Commander in Khorasan Province Brig-Gen Eskandar Mo'meni said that the police have seized five tons of narcotics in the first quarter of the Iranian year which started 21 March
- JUNE 30, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Two executions were carried out in different Iranian cities
Two executions were carried out in different Iranian cities