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 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Shabdiz and Ali Ahmadzadeh executed in Gorgan on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Ramezani executed in Ahar on November
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Darvishi executed in Khorramabad on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Ghasemi executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 6
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nasser Bekrzadeh sentenced to death for alleged ‘espionage for Israel’
Kurdish civilian
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Yazd on November 5
Mohsen Nejadi Moghaddam + 2 Unk
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in Mashhad on November 5
Mahmoud Shahraki, Mohammad-Reza Davar, Zaher Safari, Majid Ghadiri + 2 Unk
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified individuals sentenced to death for espionage
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaghoub Narouyi executed in Zahedan on November 5
- NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dariush Saeedi and Hamed Mehraban executed in Hamedan on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aref Kamali executed in Jiroft on November 5
NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Momeni and Ramin Kazem Aliloo executed in Urmia on November 4