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 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Rajai Shahr prison on May 3
Not identified
- MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolhossein Emamizadeh executed on May 3 in Gohardasht
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Firouzkouhi and Ali Daftari executed in Qazvin on May 3
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Zarei and Lal Mohammad Shirzayi Barahouyi executed in Minab on May 3
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hanif Khosravi executed in Neishabur on May 3
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names ot 2 of the 3 unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on May 3
Sirous ... and Behzad ...
- MAY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mousa and Ehsan Gorgij executed in Bandarabbas on May 2
MAY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Malek Dadzahi executed in Mashhad on May 2
- MAY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Vahedi Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 1
MAY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aminollah Karimi Ghaljayi executed in Mashhad on May 1
- APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gul Mohammad Naroi executed in Zahedan on April 30
APRIL 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Feizollah Kavandi executed in Isfahan on April 30