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 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siavash Yari and Mohammad Ali Darkeh executed in Ardakan on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Hemati executed in Arak on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Ali Taheri executed in Qazvin on November 28
818 executions in Iran in 2024
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men, 1 of them a minor, executed in Yazd on November 28
Ismail Barakzai, a minor, Davood Mohammadi Takht-Shah, Osman Dahmardeh
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahim Esmailpour executed in Yazd on November 28
- NOVEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 27
Reza Shirzahi, a minor, Hamed Pakdel + 2 Unk
- NOVEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hadi Ghiasi executed in Nahavand on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Davood Rajabi executed in Qom on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Pashayi executed in Tabriz on November 27
- NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Basati Valiabad executed in Karaj (Central) on November 26
- NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amirhossein Rahimi and Ali Rostami executed in Isfahan on November 26
- NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Mirzaqassemi executed in Zanjan on November 26