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 27, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a political prisoner, Mohamad Ali Jafarzadeh...
a political prisoner, Mohamad Ali Jafarzadeh...
- MAY 25, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
DECLARATION BY THE PRESIDENCY ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CASES IN IRAN
The European Union is deeply concerned by recent developments in the human rights situation in Iran. The
- MAY 25, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
ISNA news agency reported the execution of a man in Shiraz...
ISNA news agency reported the execution of a man in Shiraz...
- MAY 24, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in the southeastern...
a man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in the southeastern...
- MAY 24, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR ARMED ROBBERY
a man was publicly hanged in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan Baluchestan...
- MAY 17, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
TWO HANGED IN IRAN FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
two men found guilty of drug smuggling were hanged in Iran, the newspaper Tehran Emrouz reported.
- MAY 16, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
THREE HANGED IN IRAN FOR MURDER
three people convicted of murder were hanged in Iran, the newspaper Tehran Emrouz reported.
- MAY 16, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Jamalodine B., 35...
a man, identified only as Jamalodine B., 35...
- MAY 14, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. 15 DRUG TRAFFICKERS HANGED
Iran publicly hanged 15 men convicted of drug trafficking in the northeastern city of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi province.
- MAY 9, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN PUBLICLY HANGS FIVE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran publicly hanged five men convicted of drug trafficking in the southern town of Ravar in Kerman province, the governmental Iran newspaper reported.
- MAY 7, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. A WOMAN HANGED IN BANDAR ABBAS
a 30 year old women identified as Zahra Nazari was hanged in the main prison of Iran's southern city of
- MAY 5, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS TWO FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the southern town of Roodan in Hormozgan province, according to the student ISNA news agency.