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 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 26
Amin Maleki, Mehdi Shirvani and Fardin Abdollahi
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Khosrawi Sadkharv executed in Gorgan on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Basati Valiabad executed in Karaj (Central) on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Uncertainty Surrounding 17-Year-Old Negar Dabbaghi's case
Arrested on November 13
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahangir (Moslem) Rahimi executed in Saqqez on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Taherkhani executed in Qazvin on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Alipour executed in Qazvin on November 26
- NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Shahbazi Khalari executed in Shiraz on November 25
- NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Nourian executed in Mashhad on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Student Activist Leila Hosseinzadeh sentenced to Prison
For appearing unveiled at the University of Tehran
- NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Central) on November 25
Ashkan Moradi, Jalal Haj Babayi, and Davood Heidari
NOVEMBER 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Shahbazi Khalari and Nezamoddin Nouralhagh executed in Shiraz on November 23 and 25