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
MARCH 7, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PROSECUTOR SAYS VALIAN DEATH SENTENCE NOT CARRIED OUT, STILL AWAITING APPEAL
in Iran, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi denied reports that Mohammad Amin
- MARCH 3, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: AMPUTATION SENTENCE OF ONE PERSON AND PUBLIC FLOGGING OF ANOTHER CARRIED OUT IN KHUZESTAN
According to the web site of the Public Relations Office of the Khuzestan Court House
MARCH 3, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH FOR OPPOSITION ACTIVIST
An Iranian opposition-run Web site says an appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a student who
- FEBRUARY 27, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
CALL TO STOP EXECUTION OF IRANIAN-KURDISH ACTIVIST
over two thousand Iranian human rights and social activists have called for the annulment of death sentence issued to Shirin Alam Huli, 28.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
Three men were hanged in the prison of Birjand in eastern Iran, reported the daily enwspaper Khorasan
Three men were hanged in the prison of Birjand in eastern Iran, reported the daily enwspaper Khorasan
- FEBRUARY 25, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
Five men were hanged in the prison of Kerman
Five men were hanged in the prison of Kerman, southeastern Iran, reported the state run Iranian news
- FEBRUARY 24, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
Sistan-Baluchestan Province Prosecutor Mohammad Marziye denied...
Sistan-Baluchestan Province Prosecutor Mohammad Marziye denied...
FEBRUARY 24, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: JUNDULLAH' LEADERS' BROTHER EXECUTED
Iran executed Jundullah terrorist organisation leader Abdolmalek Rigi's brother
- FEBRUARY 22, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: DISSIDENTS - 'GOVERNMENT KILLS TO INSTILL FEAR'
according to the International Network Iran Human Rights 2009 Report there were 402 executions
- FEBRUARY 21, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: DEATH TO LIFE FOR IRANIAN
the Kuwaiti Court of Appeals commuted the death sentence of an Iranian man...
- FEBRUARY 20, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE PEOPLE HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Three men were hanged in two different Iranian cities for drug trafficking.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PEJAK TERRORISTS EXECUTED IN IRAN
five people were executed in the Iranian city of Urmia for assisting terrorist organisation PEJAK