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
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Tajik executed in Karaj Central Prison on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN UN removes Iran from women's rights body
UNCSW, over protest crackdown
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five unidentified men executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Khoshbakht and Hamed Nobakht executed in Hamadan on December 14
DECEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Protestors Awaiting Execution in Karaj
Mohammad-Mehdi Karami, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Hamid Ghara-Hasanlu and Hossein Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asghar Alizadeh and Ebrahim Broujerdi executed in Khorramabad on December 12
- DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Hosseini and Ali Seyyedkhani executed in Qazvin on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Narouei executed in Shiraz on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouei executed in Zahedan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Arak on December 12
Mohammad Imani, Ehsan Naseri, Mostafa Kashi + 2 unk
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nourollahi Executed in Gorgan on December 12
604 executions since the beginning of the year
DECEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Ghasemizadeh executed in Taybad on December 11