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 PENALTYIRAN - Fazel Sohrabi executed in Neishabur on September 17
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Yousefzehi executed in Gonabad on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolsamad Salarzehi and Abdolmajid Barahouyi executed in Birjand on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Okhatizadeh and Akbar Emami executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholamreza Hariri and Nemat Khodabakhsh executed in Sari on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Noormohammad Chegali + Unk executed in Dastgerd on September 16
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Goodarzi executed in Aligudarz on September 16
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Hossein Hemmati and Unk. executed in Jiroft on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mirza Vali Sotoudeh executed in Khorramabad on September 15
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Bozhabadi and Farshad Khosravi executed in Sabzevar on September 15, 2025
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalil Rashedi executed in Ramhormoz on September 15