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
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Ramin Zeleh sentenced to death
DECEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on December 5
DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hosseinali Yeganeh executed in Birjand on December 4
- DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahim Mansouri executed in Kashmar on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Artam Ghaffouri executed in Mahabad on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Christian convert Morteza Faqanpour-Sasi sentenced to prison term
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Jamshidi executed in Bandar Abbas on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Emami executed in Ghezel-Hesar on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Azad Changa executed in Naghadeh on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Mashhad on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Farhadi executed in Ahar on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Javanmardi executed in Rasht on December 3