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
OCTOBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on October 28 and 31
Kourosh Salehian, Amir Jahandar, and Reza Bidabadi
OCTOBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Binami executed in Naqadeh on October 31
OCTOBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Ekhlasi executed in Zahedan on October 31
OCTOBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Doyesti executed in Isfahan on October 31
OCTOBER 31, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Shahbazi executed in Tabriz on October 31
OCTOBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 30
Abdullah Tajik, Mostafa Gholamzadeh, Mohammad Jalali and Saman Anbari
OCTOBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Salari executed in Jiroft on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sardar Safarpour executed in Ahvaz on October 30
OCTOBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran cuts off fingers of two brothers in Urmia on October 29
Shahab and Mehrdad Teimouri convicted of theft
OCTOBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Marevatali Karami executed in Karaj (Central) on October 29
655 executions in Iran in 2024
OCTOBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Central) on October 29
Mohammad Nedaei, Ali Akbar (Mohsen) Akhayer, Akbar Khorram Taj and Morovat-Ali Karami
OCTOBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Khalili executed in Karaj (Central) on October 29