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 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashkan Yari executed in Hamedan on October 5
OCTOBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Hariri and Reza Soleimanzadeh executed in Gorgan on October 3.
OCTOBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tayeb Mansouri executed in Isfahan on October 3
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj on October 2
Ali Mamashlou and Morteza Abdolhosseinpour
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Vahid Nowruzi (Norouzi) executed in Mashhad on October 2
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Shahbazi and Fazlollah Pournasiri executed in Karaj on October 2
- OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men 1 woman executed in Karaj on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Feizi (Feyzi) executed in Tabriz on October 2
21 Women Executed in 2024
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayat Abdolfathi executed in Ahvaz on October 2
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 2
Mohammad Chaman Pira, Abbas Khodayari and Seyed Naser Hosseini
OCTOBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identified woman hanged Oct. 2: Leila Ghaemi
- OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dastgir Sasuli and Rashid Sepahi executed on October 1
In Saravan and Semnan prisons