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 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Javanmardi executed in Rasht on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Mahdavi executed in Mahshahr on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rana Faraj-Oghli, a woman, executed in Tabriz on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on December 3
Amir Emami + 2
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Zahedi executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karam Khoda Sepehri executed in Bojnourd on December 3
- DECEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Chaboksavar executed in Neyshabur on December 3
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in public on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - CSDHI report: at least 336 executions in November
(325 as of Hands off Cain)
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - … Pourheidari executed in Qazvin on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Kalagar executed in Nowshahr on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Isfahan on December 2