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
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NORTHWEST FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
four unidentified major importers of precursors of opiates were sentenced to death
SEPTEMBER 4, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: WOMAN FACING DEATH BY STONING IS 'LASHED 99 MORE TIMES'
an Iranian widow sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has been lashed 99 times for ''spreading corruption and indecency'' after a newspaper published an alleged picture of her without a headscarf, her son said.
- AUGUST 31, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: SAKINEH MOHAMMADI ASHTIANI SUBJECTED TO MOCK EXECUTION
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on August 28 that she was to be hanged at dawn the day after, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.
AUGUST 25, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: HUNDREDS POSSIBLY EXECUTED IN MASHHAD
According to unofficial reports from several sources in Iran several hundred prisoners
AUGUST 22, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged Akbar Z., 33, and Hamidreza H., 28, and Afghanistan national Shah S., 38, in a
- AUGUST 19, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: WOMAN RECIEVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR DEMONSTRATION PHOTOGRAPHY
Farah Vazehan, a female political prisoner arrested in the December 27 demonstrations in 2009 in Iran received a death sentence, according to “Human Rights Activist in Iran” weblog. Vazehan charged with sending a demonstration photo abroad to an oppositio
AUGUST 11, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE MEN HANGED IN PUBLIC
Iran publicly hanged three men in the western city of Azna, in the province of Lorestan.
- AUGUST 7, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED IN IRAN
five people were hanged in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz early in the morning, reported the state run Iranian news agency FARS.
- AUGUST 3, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SENTENCES NINE PEOPLE ACCUSED OF DRUG SMUGGLING
nine people accused of drug smuggling were sentenced to death in Iran's Kirman Province, Mehr news agency quoted Kirman City Revolutionary Court head Dadkhuda Salari as saying.
- AUGUST 2, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: EXECUTION AWAITS CRYSTAL METH TRAFFICKERS: COMMANDER
Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi, commander of the Iranian anti-drug squad of the Law Enforcement Forces...
- AUGUST 2, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
one man was hanged in the prison of Rajaee Shahr in Karaj early in the morning, according to the Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran and Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
- AUGUST 2, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. HANGING FOR DRUG
one man was hanged in the prison of Behbehan, southwest of Iran, reported the official site of the Iranian judiciary in Khuzestan.