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 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two unidentified men executed in Arak on July 9
JULY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeem Hashem Ghotali hanged in public on July 8
Afghan citizens charged with terrorism
JULY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Rashgi and Saber Moghadami executed in Adel Abad on July 6
JULY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Hakimi executed in Qom on July 6
- JULY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - UN: Iran Must Stop Executions Of Protesters
JULY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on July 4
Names not known
JULY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasser Golzardian executed in Khorramabad on July 2
JULY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Afsaneh Shahiki, executed in Kerman on July 2
213 women executed since 2007
JULY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Salimi executed in Qazvin on July 2
396 executions since the beginning of 2023
JULY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Abdoli and Mojtaba Chegeni executed in Karaj on July 1
JULY 1, 2023GermanyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - German Party Leader Refused Visit To Condemned German-Iranian Citizen
Friedrich Merz will not meet Jamshid Sharmahd
JUNE 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Council of the European Union targets 7 Iranians
over serious human rights violations