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 20, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER COMMITTED AT 17
Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi approved the death
- MAY 19, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM. GAY STUDENT WHO FACED EXECUTION IN IRAN GRANTED ASYLUM
a gay man who faces the death penalty in Iran won asylum in the UK after protests prompted
- MAY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. GHOLAM HAIDAR BALOCH FACES RISK OF EXECUTION IF TRANSFERRED TO IRAN
Balochistan Human Rights Watch reported that Gholam Haidar Baloch, a Pakistan
- MAY 11, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FIVE CONVICTED SEX MURDERERS HANGED
Iran hanged five men convicted of burning a young woman alive after raping her, at a prison in the central city of Qom, the government newspaper Iran reported.
- MAY 8, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
three men were hanged in the Rejaee shahr prison...
three men were hanged in the Rejaee shahr prison...
- MAY 7, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FOUR HANGED FOR MURDER
Iran hanged four men convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison.
- MAY 7, 2008ItalyDEATH PENALTY
UK. IRANIAN RESISTANCE AQUITTED OF TERRORISM ACCUSATIONS AGAIN
the Court of Appeal in London ordered the British Government to remove the People's
- MAY 6, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN DELAYS YOUNG MAN'S EXECUTION AFTER EU APPEAL
Iran's judiciary ordered a month's postponement of the execution of a young man
- MAY 5, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran has hanged nine drug traffickers, reports said.
Iran has hanged nine drug traffickers, reports said.
- MAY 5, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported...
the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported...
- MAY 4, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
three men convicted of kidnapping and raping at least 11 girls were sent to the gallows in Iran, in the
three men convicted of kidnapping and raping at least 11 girls were sent to the gallows in Iran, in the
- MAY 4, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
EU URGES IRAN TO SPARE MAN OVER YOUTHFUL KILLING
the European Union urged Iran not to execute a young man sentenced to death for a fatal stabbing committed when he was a minor