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 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Soltanabadi executed in Qazvin on November 10
NOVEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 1 man executed in Tabriz on November 10
Mahrokh Khani and Kazem Babayi
- NOVEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Farahani executed in Neyshabur on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kianush Keifari executed in Rasht on November 9
- NOVEMBER 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Names of the 3 Kurdish men sentenced to death for espionage
Edris Ali, Azad Shojaei from Sardasht, and Rasul Ahmad Muhammad
NOVEMBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and Majid Jamali executed in Rasht on November 7
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Individual Sentenced to Death in Urmia On Charges of “Espionage for Israel.”
- NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more executions in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 6
10 executions the same day
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on November 6
Ajmal Azizi, Jalil Eghbali, Faramarz Enhesari, Mostafa Sarlak, Mohammad-Hossein Bayat, Mohammad Tajik, Sadegh … + Unk.
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ezat Seyedi executed in Zanjan on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Alibabayi executed in Shiraz on November 6
717 executions in Iran in 2024
NOVEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Rouzbahani executed in Khorramabad on November 6