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
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Bakhshi executed in Semnan on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Atash Shakarami sentenced to receive 38 lashes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men sentenced to death on charges of “collaboration with the Zionist regime”
Also accused of having links with the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK)
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Choubi Asl executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 29
On charges of “intelligence collaboration” with Israel
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 29
Milad Kiani, Mehran Jafari, and Behnam Mirahmad
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qom on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Jeyran Zaheri, and Mohammadreza Mohammadi-Berenjgani executed in Isfahan on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Badr-Abadi executed in Malayer on Setember 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Rasht on September 29
Jafar Pourvardi, Heydar Rezaipour, Houshang Rahmantalab
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Shahlaeinia executed in Kerman on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unk executed in Babol on September 28