Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- 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 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Cousins Amir and Sohrab Heydari executed in Yazd Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
Crime not known
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Shehbakhsh executed in Isfahan Prison on July 25
For drug-related crimes
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bakhtiar Salemi executed in Shirvan Prison on July 25
For murder
- JULY 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Abedanpour executed on July 25 at Isfahan Prison
For drug related crimes
JULY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Police use extreme force to quell Khuzestan water shortage protests
JULY 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Abdollahzadeh executed in Shiraz Prison on July 20
For murder
JULY 19, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Sadeghi executed in Isfahan Prison on July 19
For drug-related charges
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Babak Aslani and Mohsen Asl-Hosseini executed in Urmia Prison on July 18
For murder
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mohammadi executed in Zanjan Prison on July 18
At least 174 executions since the beginning of the year in Iran
- JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan Central Prison on July 18
Ali Bandeh Parvizi, Javad Karimian, Nasir Ahmad Baluch and Mehrdad Golshani
JULY 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahbaz Jadidi executed in Yasuj Prison on July 18
For murder