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 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Milad Mirzakhani executed in Semnan on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nouraddin Asgari executed in Arak on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nima Karami executed in Isfahan on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Rastegari executed in Gorgan on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Raoufi executed in Kashan on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaffari executed on December 7
The primary defendant in a major economic case
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshid Jafarzadeh and Mehdi Rajabali Zadeh executed in Rasht on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ashraf Khodaei executed in Saveh on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Golmirza Nejati executed in Aligudarz on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Borzu Beigi executed in Saveh on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Nemati executed in Qom on December 7
- DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Bahmani executed in Nishapur on December 7