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 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison on July 17
For murder
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Afshin Gheidar executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on July 14
161st execution in Iran since the beginning of the year
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farzan Masoumzadeh and Omid Yari executed in Rasht Prison on July 14
For murders
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran At Risk Of COVID-19 Fifth Wave As Homegrown Vaccine Campaign Stalls
Iran is the worst hit by Covid 19 in the region
JULY 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Abdolrahim executed in Rajai Shahr Prison July 14
For murder
JULY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Raouf Rezaeifar, Mohammad Farokhi and Hashem Bavarmand executed in Isfahan on July 13
At least 48 executed on drug-related charges in Iran in 2021
- JULY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mohammadi was executed in Jiroft Prison on July 13
- JULY 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Execution of three prisoners in Isfahan Prison on July 13
Other sources gave, for the same day and place, completely different names
- JULY 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Prisoner Released from Gallows After Forgiveness from Parents
Which are partly of him too
JULY 12, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Najafi and Ali Ahmadi executed in Maragheh Prison on July 5
JULY 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hassan Taheri Haghighi executed in Adelabad Prison on July 11
For murder
JULY 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Nemati and Mohammad Hassan Taheri executed in Shiraz prison on 11 July
For murder