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 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arvin Ghahremani executed in Kermanshah on November 4
A young Iranian Jewish man
NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Rastakhiz executed in Kahnuj on November 4
- NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Jamshidi and Mohammadreza Sotoodeh executed in Shiraz on November 4
NOVEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Ahmadi and Mansour Rastakhzi executed in Kahnuj on November 4
NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashkan Asgari executed in Arak on November 3
- NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Daryoush Saeedi executed in Hamedan on November 3
NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Kazem Alilu and Ali Momeni executed in Urmia on November 3
NOVEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Abbas Moghaddam executed in Karaj on November 3
- NOVEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on November 2
Moaven Mirjahani, Shahrokh Saeedkhani, Mohammad-Javad Karami
- NOVEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholamali Shakerian executed in Ahvaz on November 2
NOVEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soleiman Abbaspour, a possible child offender, was executed in Zanjan on November 2
NOVEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 161 prisoners executed in October
5 women