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
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Barahouei and Kurus Naroui executed in Isfahan on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on December 30
Ahmad Barahooie (Brahui) Chenal, Kourosh Narooie, Ayat Pourmansouri, and Babak Shoghi.
DECEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester (Mojahed) Korkor sentenced to death
For the second time
- DECEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalal Stanekzai executed in Aligudarz on December 29
DECEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cecilia Sala, a 29-year-old Italian journalist, arrested in Tehran
DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Gonabad on December 26
Javad Ghaffari, Ahmad Ghafran, Abdollah Naroui and Hossein Salarzehi
DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Fakhri and Asad Amini executed in Jiroft on December 26
948 executions in Iran in 2024
- DECEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahan Tigh third man executed in Jiroft on Dec. 26
951 executions in Iran in 2024
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahmoud Keshavarzi executed in Shiraz on December 25
DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on December 25
Masoud Jalilian, Hassan Mansouri, Hamed Pakdaman
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Pournaghi executed in Tabriz on December 25
- DECEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Ranjbar and Kateb Seyednian executed in Shiraz on December 25