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
DECEMBER 27, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: HAMID BAGHERI DERMANI EXECUTED FOR ECONOMIC CORRUPTION
Hamid Bagheri Dermani, a businessman known by the State-run Iranian media as the "Sultan of Bitumen", was executed on 22 December 2018 on alleged economic corruption charges.
- DECEMBER 20, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PRISONER HANGED AT MASHHAD PRISON
According to the Iranian website, Rokna, a 50 years old man was executed on the morning of 12 December 2018 at Mashhad Central Prison.
- DECEMBER 13, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN URMIA OVER DRUG CHARGES
According to the IHR sources, Younes Azizi was hanged on 10 December 2018 at Urmia Central Prison. He was sentenced to death for drug offenses.
DECEMBER 12, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED AT QAZVIN PRISON
According to Iranian media outlets reports, an unnamed prisoner was hanged on the rape charges on the morning of 9 December 2018 at Qazvin Central Prison.
DECEMBER 11, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH VERDICT AGAINST BAQERI DARMANI
Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje'i announced on 9 December 2018 that the Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence against Hamid Baqeri-Darmani for bribery and fraud which was issued in a lower court.
DECEMBER 11, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED AT GORGAN PRISON
A prisoner was hanged on the charge of rape at Gorgan Central Prison on 4 December 2018
DECEMBER 10, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: INMATES HANGED AT KARAJ AND BANDAR ABBAS PRISONS
Two prisoners were hanged on 8 December 2018 at the prisons of Karaj and Bandar Abbas.
- DECEMBER 10, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MASS EXECUTION OF 12 INMATES IN KERMAN CENTRAL PRISON
Iran on 6 December 2018 executed 12 prisoners in Kerman Central Prison, most of them convicted of drug charges.
- DECEMBER 6, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER SEYYED-DANIAL ZEINOLABEDIN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Seyed Danial ZeinolAbedini is a juvenile offender whose death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is scheduled for execution, Iran Human Rights reported on 1 December 2018.
- DECEMBER 5, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PRISONER CONVICTED OF MURDERING PROMINENT CLERIC AND CHILD ABUSER HANGED
A prisoner convicted of murdering a prominent cleric who had allegedly sexually abused him when he was a minor, was hanged on 1 December 2018 morning at Rasht Central Prison in northern Iran.
- DECEMBER 3, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PUBLIC EXECUTION OF A PERSON WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
A prisoner was hanged in public at Iranian city of Taft (Central Iran) on 29 November 2018.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PRISONER HANGED ON MURDER CHARGES AT TABRIZ CENTRAL PRISON
A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Tabriz Central Prison on 27 November 2018 morning.