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
- FEBRUARY 19, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A bandit named Ali Dozd [Ali, the Thief] or Ali Saddam...
A bandit named Ali Dozd [Ali, the Thief] or Ali Saddam [after notorious Iraqi President Saddam Husayn] was hanged in public in Anduhjerd
- FEBRUARY 19, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Faghir Gangar Zehi was executed in prison in Kerman, Iran
Faghir Gangar Zehi was executed in prison in Kerman, Iran
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal...
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal - was hanged in Amol for breaking into a house and raping a woman
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Three prisoners, Mohammad Hossein Mobaraki, Davoud...
Three prisoners, Mohammad Hossein Mobaraki, Davoud Dadashzadeh and Mohammed Asgari were hanged in the early hours in Tehran's Qasr prison
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran court passed two death sentences on Fath Ali...
A Tehran court passed two death sentences on Fath Ali Moradi, and another death sentence on another man
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was publicly hanged in the northern...
A convicted murderer was publicly hanged in the northern city of Qazvin, the daily Iran reported
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court in Kerman sentenced two men, 23 and...
An Iranian court in Kerman sentenced two men, 23 and 24-years-old, to death
- FEBRUARY 14, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence issued by Iran's late revolutionary...
The death sentence issued by Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini against the British author Salman Rushdie, who was accused of blaspheming Islam is irrevocable, the Islamic Revolution Martyr Foundation said
- FEBRUARY 14, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Nedai was hanged in public in Takestan, Iran
Hassan Nedai was hanged in public in Takestan, Iran
- FEBRUARY 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in the northwestern Iranian province of Khorasan...
A court in the northwestern Iranian province of Khorasan handed out 11 death sentences to Saeed Hanaii
- FEBRUARY 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hojjat ol-Eslam Gharavian, a lecturer at Qom seminary...
Hojjat ol-Eslam Gharavian, a lecturer at Qom seminary and a hard-line cleric said Imam Khomeyni's fatwa on Salman Rushdie still stands and every single Muslim may carry out the verdict
- FEBRUARY 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iraj Rashvan was executed in Takestan, Iran
Iraj Rashvan was executed in Takestan, Iran