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
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaedi and Sadegh Mahmoodi Baram executed publicly on July 13
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Jiroft on July 13
Mehdi Shariati, Rashid Dehmordeh, and “Salarifar”
JULY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Dolkhani and Amir Islamdoost executed in Urmia on July 13
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fatemeh Yousef Abadi, a woman, executed in Gohardasht on July 12
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Hosseinpour executed in Maku on July 12
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Zarouni executed in Ilam on July 12
JULY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on July 12
- JULY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bakhtiar Cheraghi executed in Kermanshah on July 11
JULY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Musa Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 11
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hadi Shahuzehi executed in Kerman on June 9
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 women executed in Isfahan on July 9
Monireh Sayadat and Farzieh Shokrollahi
- JULY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Alizehi executed in Zahedan on June 9