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
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Jafari executed in Shahrekord on November 21
- NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Talebian and Morteza Daneshvand executed in Tabriz on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amrollah Dehghan executed in Shiraz on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kazem Heidari executed in Isfahan on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Souri executed in Kermanshah on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shirali Tarkeshband executed in Rasht on November 20
NOVEMBER 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sirus Jafari executed in Rasht on November 20
NOVEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soleiman Vaziri executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on November 19
- NOVEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Safa Hosseini executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on November 19
NOVEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kianush Keifari executed in Rasht on November 19
- NOVEMBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Fayazi and Omid Javedan executed in Esfarayen on November 19
NOVEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roshanak Malai-Alishah remains detained amid uncertainty about her condition