Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- 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 5, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was given a last minute reprieve...
A convicted murderer was given a last minute reprieve by the family of the victim in Saveh, south of Tehran
- JANUARY 4, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
A moratorium on executions by stoning is only temporary,...
A moratorium on executions by stoning is only temporary, a senior Iranian conservative cleric said, while admitting the practice had hurt Tehran's image abroad
- JANUARY 1, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Kayhan evening newspaper reported that five Iranian...
The Kayhan evening newspaper reported that five Iranian men were hanged, three of them publicly, for a range of offences including murder, rape and armed robbery
- JANUARY 1, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
State-run newspapers, Afarinesh and Sedaye Edalat,...
State-run newspapers, Afarinesh and Sedaye Edalat, reported that courts in Tehran sentenced to death two prisoners
- JANUARY 1, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned newspaper, Kayhan, reported that five...
The state-owned newspaper, Kayhan, reported that five prisoners had been hanged in two cities in Iran