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 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolqader Sargolzaei executed in Isfahan on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Babak Shahbazi executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Farshad Bourkzehi executed in Gonabad on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrdad Tajik executed in Shiraz on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 17
Abbas Yazdani, Nadim Ashrafzadeh and Abdolghader Sargolzayi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men execute in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
Ali Esmaili, Majid Hosseini, Omid Hassanzadeh, Rahman Sarlak, Babak Shahbazi + Unk Afghan
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Zahra Fotouhi, and Morteza Shirkhani executed in Tabriz on September 17
1069 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Yeganeh executed in Semnan on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Hashami executed in Miandoab
The Execution Leads to Revenge Killings
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Hosseini executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 17
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Sabzevar on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Pirabbasi executed in Sabzevar on September 17