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
- MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Mousavi executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on March 3
- MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Naderi executed in Dezful Prison on March 3
MARCH 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Firouz Bahrami Astaraki executed in Dezful Prison on March 3
For the murder of the commander of a SSF station, Abbas Naderi
MARCH 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Shahsavand executed in Isfahan on March 2
MARCH 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Vahid Tabataba’I executed in Gohardasht Prison on March 2
77 executions since the beginning of the year
- MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On unspecified date Ahmad Salarzehi and Naeem Shahbakhsh executed in Shiraz
"second week of March"
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date 3 men executed in Shiraz
Fahim Afghani, Mehrdad Moqaddas and Hassan Gholam Shahi "in the second week of March"
MARCH 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On unspecified date Mohammad Reza Heidari executed in Shiraz
"first week of March"
- FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Salehbeig received 74 lashes prior to being executed in Zanjan on February 28
(also Salehbeyg, Saleh-Beyg)
FEBRUARY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi released
(Also Mohammad-Reza Haddadi)
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Heydar Ghorbani executed in Khorramabad on February 27
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Ghanbari executed in Jiroft on February 27