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
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahriar Khalafi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Shah Mohammadi executed in Qom on June 1
JUNE 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Karbakhsh Executed in Kerman on June 1
- MAY 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentence for political prisoner Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh upheld
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Amin Asadi executed in Isfahan on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pedram Madani executed in Karaj on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Hosseinzehi executed in Khash on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Abbaszadeh and Alireza Ahmadi executed in Isfahan on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men, including a juvenile offendere, executed in Karaj on May 28
Amir Hossein Mohammadi, Majid Bahrami, Seyed Abbas Laki Khosrokhani, Hojjat Havasi Geravand, and Afshin Azizi
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Hadi Farhadi executed in Shiraz on May 28
MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Ahmadpour executed in Ahvaz on May 28
- MAY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shahmoradi and Farhoud Hosseini executed in Kermanshah on May 28