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
- JULY 3, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN REDUCES DEATH PENALTY, LIFE SENTENCE AGAINST 1700 DRUG CONVICTS
Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor general, announced that 1,700 sentences of narcotic-related cases have been commuted from capital punishment and life sentence to less severe forms of punishment.
JULY 3, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN EXECUTED IN TABRIZ
According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Tabriz Central Prison.
JUNE 30, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO EXECUTED ON MURDER CHARGES
According to a close source, on the morning 2 prisoners were executed at Gorgan Prison on murder charges.
JUNE 27, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN KARAJ
According to a close source, on the morning two prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.
JUNE 27, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER EXECUTED
According to Amnesty International sources, Abolfazl Chazani Sharahi, a juvenile offender charged with murder at the age of 15, was executed at Qom Central Prison.
JUNE 26, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: A PRISONER HANGED ON MURDER CHARGES AT TABRIZ CENTRAL PRISON
A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Tabriz central prison this morning.
JUNE 20, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED AT SHIRVAN PRISON
A prisoner was hanged at Shirvan Prison in Northern Khorasan Province.
- JUNE 18, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS SUFI OVER KILLING OF 3 POLICEMEN
Iran has executed a member of a Sufi order who rammed a bus into police as they tried to disperse a rally, killing three of them.
JUNE 18, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FIVE PRISONERS EXECUTED
Five prisoners who were sentenced to death on murder charges were hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison.
JUNE 15, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - BILL FOR COLLECTIVE PARDONS
OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
- JUNE 11, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 SEATH SENTENCES
FOR DAESH MEMBERS
- JUNE 7, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
POSSIBLE DEATH SENTENCE FOR HAMIDREZA AMINI
PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE