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 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Qom on September 5
18 women executed in 2023
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Abbas Najari executed in Shiraz on September 5
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Mahboubeh Roshandel, executed in Mashhad on September 4
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Moghtaderi executed in Ahvaz on September 3
AUGUST 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Rouhi has died under suspicious circumstances
A protester sentenced to death
AUGUST 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Sargazi and Esmaeil Hajizadeh executed in Hamedan on August 29
531 executions since the beginning of 2023
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Wafa Kharamani executed in Saqqez on August 27
528 executions in Iran in 2023
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sobhan Eftekharedin executed in Aligudarz on August 27
AUGUST 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Yazdanpanah executed in Zarand on August 26
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qezel Hesar on August 23
Kiumars Rezaei, Rahman Ebrahimi and Behrouz Rahmani
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentied man executed in Mahvelat on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Karami executed in Karaj on August 23