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
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ramezan Jafarzadeh and Mohammad Mohammadi-Ghaed executed in Shiraz on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed at an undisclosed prison on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafour Nejatpour executed in Gonbad Kavous on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed in Gohardasht on September 7
3 identified as Abolfazl Shahi, Mohammad Arab and Khosro Nourbakhsh
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yar Mohammad Eshaghzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Tabriz in the last days
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 men executed in Minab Prison on September 6
Abdolkhalegh Narouyi, Soleiman Narouyi, Abdolghafour Bahadorzadeh-Rigi, Abbas Nobakht, Mohammad Zobeiri, Mohammad Kazemi and Mohammadreza Hedayati
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Haghverdizadeh and Khalghollah Fahimzadeh executed in Taybad on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Soleimani, Aziz Yarhashemi and Shahram Kakavand executed in Karaj on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 Iranian women sentenced to death for their sexual orientation
Zahra Sedighi Hamedani and Elham Choobdar
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Qanbarzahi and Ainullah Qanbarzahi executed in Zahedan on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Ghaed-Rahmati executed in Khorramabad on September 3