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
- MAY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Najmedin Eshaghzehi executed in Semnan on May 9
- MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Shiraz on May 8
- MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Zayerfar executed in Ahar on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed on May 8: Mohammad Ahmadi, Yaser Rakhshani and Yunus Rigi Rakhshani
25 Baloch prisoners executed in the last 11 days
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Shahrouzi executed in Shiraz on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare executed for blasphemy
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executed Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab
For “terrorism”
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Samiei and Tahmaseb Kavousi executed in Zanjan on May 6
229 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salahedin Majidi (Dodkanlu) and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi executed in Salmas on May 6
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - EU condemns execution of Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Chaab
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faramarz Shakhsi executed in Urmia on May 5