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 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on September 27
Younes Ahmadi, Mehdi Veisi and Ghodrat Nazari
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kadkhodaei executed in Isfahan on September 27
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Farah-Avar’s death sentence upheld
Political prisoner
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
Ahmad-Reza Geravand, Farshad Geravand, and Amir …
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 24
Mahnaz Dehqani, Kamran Amirzadegan, and Seyed Morad Hemmat
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Karami and Jaber Asgari executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on September 24
Ali Keshavarz, Sajad Aslani, Ahmad Bakhtiar, Keyvan Rahmati
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Saberi executed in Ilam on September 24, 2025
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Navahand on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mehdipour executed in Ilam on September 24
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahan Houshmand executed in Ahvaz on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aria Soltani executed in Shiraz on September 24