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 14, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad E
Ahmad E
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Ali Gholestaneh, Mostapha Ghanjali and Seyed...
Ahmad Ali Gholestaneh, Mostapha Ghanjali and Seyed Khalil Pour-Anvari were executed for drug-trafficking January 9 in the courtyard of the Evine prison in Tehran, the student news agency ISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Karam Abdollahi, Nader Sadati and Khalil Mansouri,...
Karam Abdollahi, Nader Sadati and Khalil Mansouri, convicted of armed robbery were hanged on January 9 in the courtyard of the Evine prison in Tehran, the student news agency ISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Afarinesh daily reported that a young man identified...
The Afarinesh daily reported that a young man identified as Reza was sentenced to death in Tehran
- JANUARY 12, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's reformist-held parliament approved the details...
Iran's reformist-held parliament approved the details of a law granting non-Muslim minorities the right to the same "blood money" as Muslim men
- JANUARY 11, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court sentenced a teen-ager to death by...
An Iranian court sentenced a teen-ager to death by hanging after he was convicted for a third time of drinking alcohol, the state newspaper Iran said
- JANUARY 9, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-run daily Sedaye Edalat reported that two...
The state-run daily Sedaye Edalat reported that two men were sentenced to death in the southern port city of Boushehr
- JANUARY 8, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Assi Dehlavi was hanged in the south-western city of Ahwaz
Assi Dehlavi was hanged in the south-western city of Ahwaz
- JANUARY 7, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
State run newspapers reported that a young mother and...
State run newspapers reported that a young mother and her 16 year-year-old son would be hanged on charges of killing a man with "sleeping pills
- JANUARY 6, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Clashes between convicts and guards occurred at the...
Clashes between convicts and guards occurred at the Karun 4 prison in Ahvaz, where 300 inmates tried to prevent the transfer of a prisoner to the execution site, "Entekhab" newspaper reported on 31 December
- JANUARY 6, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-run Bahar daily reported that a young prisoner...
The state-run Bahar daily reported that a young prisoner named Hossein was sentenced to death
- JANUARY 6, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The wife of death-row Iranian academic Hashem Aghajari,...
The wife of death-row Iranian academic Hashem Aghajari, as well as several jailed liberal opposition members and journalists signed up to stand in Iran's forthcoming municipal elections, officials said