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 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Marand on August 9
Identities not disclosed
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Khazaei and Ahad Hashemi executed in Hamedan on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asadollah Arjomand (Arjmand) executed in Yasuj on August 9
AUGUST 8, 2023GermanyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Germany Intensifies Efforts To Release Jamshid Sharmahd
AUGUST 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Nasirian and Hassan Ali Shakib executed in Shiraz on August 8
AUGUST 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Ghafar Shahiki + Unk executed in Kerman on August 7
- AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 6
Amir Jahangiri, Javad Bazgari, Sajjad Nazari and Mohsen Sharafi (Sharfi)
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabar Moslemi executed in Qazvin on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Eslami executed in Nishapur on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arsalan Kazemi + Unk executed in Arak on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Hashemi executed in Karaj on August 6