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
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 30 of those arrested alongside Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi identified
At the memorial ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikurdi
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaka Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshid Sagvand executed in Aligudarz on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamideh Jabbari and Manouchehr Ramazani executed in Qom on December 13
60 women executed in 2025
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Eitvand and Keyumars Bahrami executed in Karaj on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Sarlak executed in Dezful on December 13
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aziz Ali Moradi executed in Kermanshah on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Koulivand and Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Golmohammadi executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 16 arrests, including Nobel laureate Mohammadi
During a ceremony for the suspicious death of Khosrow Alikurdi
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Navabi executed in Taybad on December 11
- DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Ghahremani executed in Ferdows on December 11