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
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cousins Mostafa and Farhad Vafayi executed in Rasht on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 18
Ali Khoramshah Amrayi, Najaf Soleiman Reshad, Firouz Yarinejad + Unk
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Rigi executed in Jiroft on May 18
MAY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - An man Afghan executed in Gohardasht on 18 May
Identified as Saeed, or Masoud
MAY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Borzu Chaqazardi and Saeed Najafi executed in Kermanshah on May 17
MAY 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sha’aban Yousefi executed in Gorgan on May 16
- MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qezel Hesar on May 10
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Bandarabbas and Minab prisons on May 15
Abdolrahman Mousazehi, Jalal Rigi + 3 unk.
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 man executed in Fereydun Kenar on May 15
Identified only as M. A.
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Padayar and Peyman Akbari Birgani executed in Khorramabad on May 15
MAY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Arjumandi and Kayumars Menbari executed in Sanandaj on May 14
- MAY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran is entitled to chair an event of the United Nation's Human Rights Council
The Iranian government tries to demean the opposition