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
- JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - French couple face death penalty on spying charges
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris
JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri sentenced to death
JULY 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabar Pourmohammadi Maghani executed in Zanjan on July 2
- JULY 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Ali Abedi executed in Ahar on July 1
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - New bill approved by parliament to punish collaborating with “hostile groups”
Death penalty for a wide range of offences
JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 man exewcuted in Taybad on June 30
Unidentified Afghan man
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadreza Didban and Mozaffar Najari executed in Shiraz on June 30
- JUNE 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Mostafavi executed in Neyshabur on June 28
- JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 political prisoners executed on charges of espionage for Israel
- JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Israeli Air Force hit Evin Prison, symbol of political imprisonment
Victims among officers, not among prisoners
- JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on June 25
- JUNE 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Mashhad on June 25