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
MARCH 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Khorramabad on March 11
Zafar Hadipour, Nader Ebrahimpour, Younes Koulemrazi + Unk.
MARCH 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Urmia on March 10
Sardar Jalalifar, Saleh Ghassemi, Mansour Abdizadeh + Unk
MARCH 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Pourfayaz executed in Urmia on March 10
MARCH 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Bajizehi executed in Shiraz on March 10
MARCH 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Sardari Far executed in Urmia on March 9
MARCH 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meisham Bahram and Shah Bakhsh (Mahmoud) Ostadi executed in Bandar Abbas on March 7
144 executions since the beginning of the year
MARCH 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on March 6
Hamid Shahouzahi, Bahram Behzadi and Mohammad Amin Javashiri
MARCH 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Khorramabad on March 6
Ayat Aliari, Sohrab Sourilaki, Hassan Joudaki and … Akram
MARCH 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentences for 6 Men Over Attacks In Southwest
Ali Mojadam, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Ghobishavi and Salem Mousavi.
MARCH 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Supreme leader Khamenei orders punishment for schoolgirl poisoning
MARCH 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kiumars Zarghami executed in Saqqez on March 5
- MARCH 3, 2023BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium’s Top Court Issues Decree To Swap Iranian Diplomat
Assadi and Vandecasteele