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
- MAY 18, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian parliament passed legislation introducing...
The Iranian parliament passed legislation introducing the death penalty as maximum punishment for those found guilty of human trafficking
- MAY 17, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian Judiciary denied having received any decree...
The Iranian Judiciary denied having received any decree from supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i to review a court ruling on the execution of jailed dissident Hashem Aghajari
- MAY 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian reformist academic Hashem Aghajari, whose death...
Iranian reformist academic Hashem Aghajari, whose death sentence for blasphemy in 2002 led to mass protests, is unlikely to be executed although a provincial court has upheld the sentence, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said
- MAY 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the head of the justice department to re-examine "as quickly as possible" the file on dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari, condemned to death for blasphemy, the student news agency ISNA said
- MAY 14, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari's death sentence...
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari's death sentence for blasphemy will most probably be quashed by the supreme court, the student news agency ISNA said, quoting the head of the judiciary in western Hamadan province, Zekrollah Ahmadi
- MAY 13, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran...
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iranian dailies reported
- MAY 13, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a man named Sammy Kh. was sentenced to 80 whips
a man named Sammy Kh. was sentenced to 80 whips
- MAY 12, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Hoseyn Shari'atmadari, managing editor of the Iranian...
Hoseyn Shari'atmadari, managing editor of the Iranian daily Keyhan Persian, criticized the chief of the Judiciary Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi for his failure to put an end to the unjustifiable death sentence against academic Hashem Aghajari
- MAY 11, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Some 600 students gathered at Tehran University to...
Some 600 students gathered at Tehran University to hear the sister of jailed Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, denounce "religion in the service of power"
- MAY 10, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Salman Nassiri, 30, was hanged in a prison in the city...
Salman Nassiri, 30, was hanged in a prison in the city of Lahijan, northern Iran
- MAY 10, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian judge who reconfirmed a controversial death...
An Iranian judge who reconfirmed a controversial death sentence against dissident Hashem Aghajari ignored objections to the original sentence made by the Supreme Court, newspapers quoted his lawyer as saying
- MAY 9, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Association of the Defenders of Human Rights issued...
The Association of the Defenders of Human Rights issued a statement following the confirmation of the verdict in Hashem Agajari's case at the Iranian court of the first instance in Hamedan