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
AUGUST 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Afghan national executed in Rafsanjan on August 13
AUGUST 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdollah Lashtaghouni and Hamed Mozafari executed in Bandar Abbas on August 13
AUGUST 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Khorramabad on August 10 and 12
Hossein Hatami, Naser Geravand, Milad Hadipour, Shirzad Reshadat, Ayat Biranvand + Unk
AUGUST 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Tabriz on August 12
Mohammad Ansari Gheshlagh, Ali Mehdian and two unidentified Afghan nationals
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Zahrabi executed in Isfahan on August 11
AUGUST 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Dehdari executed in Shiraz on August 11
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 29 men executed in Karaj on August 7
Maybe also 2 women
AUGUST 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified women execute in Karaj (Central) on August 7
- AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 6
Aminollah Narui (Narooie), Hamzeh Garavand, and Azad Abdollahi
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Rasaei executed in Kermanshah on August 6
Political prisoner arrested during the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement
AUGUST 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Gohari executed in Sabzevar on August 6
- AUGUST 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hoy Atef ... executed in Bushehr on August 4