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
AUGUST 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shouresh Morovati executed in Sanandaj on August 22
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 21
Abdolsamad Khadem, Yaghoub Ejbari, Mohammad Anwar Barahouyi, Esmail Ghanbarzehi and 'Mir'
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolreza Ghalavand executed in Ahvaz on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamil Abodllahzadeh and Mehran Amiri executed in Qazvin on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Narouyi executed in Kahnuj on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 21
Saeed Rigi, Abdolghafour Toumaj and Amir Rahimi
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yazdan Varehzardi executed in Ahvaz on august 21
AUGUST 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Afkhami executed in Sari on August 20
AUGUST 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Samad Shahozehi and Mahmoud Rigi executed in Zahedan on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 19
- AUGUST 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ibrahim Moulodpour executed in Dezful on August 16
AUGUST 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Javadi executed in Maragheh on August 16