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
- JANUARY 11, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Canada's Supreme Court ruled that refugees who face...
Canada's Supreme Court ruled that refugees who face torture in their homelands "generally" cannot be deported there, unless the evidence shows that their continued presence in Canada poses a serious security risk to the country
- JANUARY 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hamid Reza R
Hamid Reza R
- JANUARY 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's hardline revolutionary court began the trial...
Iran's hardline revolutionary court began the trial in closed session of 15 Iranian activists charged with "conspiring to overthrow the Islamic system"
- JANUARY 6, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man was publicly hanged for murdering a...
An Iranian man was publicly hanged for murdering a woman and two others were hanged for rape, newspapers said
- JANUARY 3, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death in the Iranian city...
Two men were sentenced to death in the Iranian city of Kerman
- JANUARY 2, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman was sentenced to death in the Iranian capital...
A woman was sentenced to death in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Farsi language newspaper Afarinesh reported
- JANUARY 2, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Ali Asghar and Mohammed Naghi were condemned to death...
Ali Asghar and Mohammed Naghi were condemned to death in the Iranian city of Ozgol, the Farsi language newspaper Afarinesh reported