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 17, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a young man, identified only as Arash, 20, was hanged...
a young man, identified only as Arash, 20, was hanged...
- JANUARY 16, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Mahmoud T., 33...
a man, identified only as Mahmoud T., 33...
- JANUARY 15, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRANIAN COURT DROPS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TEEN
an Iranian court dropped a death sentence against a teenager convicted of stabbing to death one of three men who
- JANUARY 15, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
three prisoners, identified as Eskandar Abbassi...
three prisoners, identified as Eskandar Abbassi...
- JANUARY 10, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
ADVOCATES HOPE IRANIAN GIRL WILL AVOID EXECUTION
the trial of Nazanin Fatehi, an Iranian girl convicted of killing a man who attempted to rape her, concluded, according to a former Miss World Canada who had advocated on her behalf.
- JANUARY 10, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murdering a police officer was hanged in the northern town of Tonekabon, Mazandaran province, a press report said.
- JANUARY 10, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS CONVICTED MURDERER IN PUBLIC
an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged
- JANUARY 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN CONVICTED OF RAPE
Iran hanged a man convicted of rape in Evin, Teheran’s main prison.
- JANUARY 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN CONVICTED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the central city of Isfahan, the state news agency IRNA reported.
- JANUARY 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MEN CONVICTED OF MURDER
Iran hanged two men convicted of murder in Evin, Teheran’s main prison.
- JANUARY 2, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified as Nasser Batemani...
a man, identified as Nasser Batemani...
- JANUARY 1, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
Offences punishable by death include:
Offences punishable by death include: