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
JUNE 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ishaq Anshini executed in Zahedan on June 14
JUNE 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Gomshadzehi and Eshagh Anshini executed in Zahedan on June 24
- JUNE 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hemin Mostafaei executed on June 21 in Sanandaj
- JUNE 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aref Havasi executed in Ilam on June 20
JUNE 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Siamak Lutfi executed in Tabriz on June 20
JUNE 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Seifi executed in Tabriz on June 20
JUNE 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Al-Nasser and Abbas Khanjari executed in Ahvaz on June 19
JUNE 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Danesh Salari executed in Kahnuj on June 19
380 executions since the beginning of the year
JUNE 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Samadi executed in Saveh on June 19
- JUNE 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mula Shamsi executed on June 18 in Zanjan
- JUNE 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in public on June 18
In Deylam
- JUNE 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fazl Ahmad Ghafran (Rukhshani) executed in Kerman on June 18