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
NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Nahavand on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mosib Khalavand executed in Bandar Abbas on November 16
- NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Habibi and Mohammadreza Basharat executed in Qazvin on November 16
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour-Mohammad Rahmati executed in Aligudarz on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamyar Fathi and Sajjad Hatami executed in Kermanshah on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Over 1,600 executions since the beginning of 2025.
At least 52 were women
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarmorad Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on November 15
NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Saki and Jahan Rasouli executed in Dezful on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moslem Naderi executed in Isfahan on November 15
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Gerayi executed in Behbahan on November 14
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Confirmation of Death Sentences for 3 Political Prisoner
Farshad Etemadifar, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Rafiei executed in Aligudarz on November 14