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 29, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERIES
an Iranian man convicted of murder and armed robberies was hanged in public in the southern city of Shiraz, the official news agency IRNA reported.
- JANUARY 28, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SERIAL RAPE
an Iranian man was convicted and sentenced to death for kidnapping and raping an estimated 340 young girls, media reports said.
- JANUARY 25, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran publicly hanged Ali Khani and Hassan Ghanbari for murder.
Iran publicly hanged Ali Khani and Hassan Ghanbari for murder.
- JANUARY 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported.
- JANUARY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. SISTERS PUBLISH LIST OF 9,400 IRANIANS 'MURDERED' BY THE REGIME
Ladan and Roya Boroumand, whose father, a pro-democracy opposition leader, was assassinated by an Iranian death squad while living in exile in Paris in 1991, unveiled the largest database of the victims murdered and executed by the theocratic regime since
- JANUARY 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Gholamreza, 36...
a man, identified only as Gholamreza, 36...
- JANUARY 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. COUPLE HANGED FOR MURDERING BURGLARY VICTIMS
a young Iranian couple convicted of killing a mother and daughter during a burglary were hanged in Tehran's Evin prison.
- JANUARY 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. IRANIAN MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
a man was hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for alleged murder charges. Death sentence for the man identified by his first name Esmail, was endorsed by the mullahs' supreme court.
- JANUARY 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Varamin, has been hanged in public, in Iran.
a man, identified only as Varamin, has been hanged in public, in Iran.
- JANUARY 16, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR END TO DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD OFFENDERS
Amnesty International (AI) called on the Iranian authorities to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty for child offenders.
- JANUARY 7, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. IRAN TO HANG WOMAN WHO KILLED IN 'SELF DEFENCE'
an 18-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man she said tried to rape her was sentenced to death for murder, according to the Etemad newspaper.
- JANUARY 6, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. DISABLED MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER
Behrouz Mehranpour,