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 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mahdinejad executed in Ghezel-Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Keyvan Mohammadi executed in Zanjan on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roya Abbas-zadeh executed in Zanjan on September 24
A 25-year-old Turkish woman
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IRAN - 87th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kolsoum Akbari handed 10 death sentences for poisoning 11 husbands
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Mahdipur executed in Ilam on September 23, 2025
SEPTEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Fathi executed in Sari on September 22
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Borazjan on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mojtaba Mahdavi and … Ahmadi executed in Taybad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Payman Jamshidi executed in Khorramabad on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolaziz Ghaljayi executed in Zahedan on September 21
1102 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Alizadeh and Vahid Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on September 21