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
OCTOBER 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Ebrahimi and Behzad Ghaffari (Ghafari) executed in Tabriz on October 19
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nourmorad Garavand and … Sanjari executed in Qazvin on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Karimi and Mohammad Ali Najafi executed in Isfahan on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Bameri executed in Kahnuj on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nourmorad Geravand executed in Qazvin on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Bamri (or Mahmoud Bamri) executed in Qom on October 17
OCTOBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 more men executed in Isfahan on October 17
Mohammadreza Mahjour and Mohammad Ashoori
- OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdol Nazari executed in Nourabad on October 16
- OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on October 16
Abdolbari Tajik, Pasha Pashto, Javid Ahmadkhani + Rahman …
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mokhtari executed in Shiraz on October 16
596 executions in 2024
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Fili and an unidentified woman executed on October 16 in Hamedan
OCTOBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Jashlu executed in Qom on October 16