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
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IRAN - Khodayar Ahmadkhani executed in Taybad on July 26
JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Shakeri executed in Zanjan on July 26
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jahangir Fouladi executed in Zanjan on July 24
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ashkan Mehdipanah and Mehdi Heidari executed in Hamedan on July 24
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner, sentenced to death
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Mohammad Rezaei executed in Buin Zahra on July 24
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Mahmoudian executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ruhollah Arab executed in Semnan on July 23
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Heydari executed in Shiraz on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Heydari Tarkashvand executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 23
Behzad Gholamzadeh, Latif Karegar, Saman Heydari
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