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 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Yazd on December 2
Ali Neirang, Jalal Khorshidi and Mahmoud Abdollahi + 1
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sultan Morad Nasiri executed in Esfarayen on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Mozaffarzadeh executed in Qom on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Semnan on December 2
Mahmoud Nouri, Hossein Shafizadeh and Gholamreza Bahrami
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IRAN - Fariborz Niazi executed in Malayer on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Aminpour executed in Ardabil on December 2
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IRAN - Mohammad Jafar Alinia executed in Behbahan on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshid Karami was executed in Damghan on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Malek Gerayi was executed in Ilam on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Kazazi was executed in Shiraz on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esfandiar Zakipour executed in Quchan on December 2
- DECEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Reza Shah-Mohammadi was executed in Zanjan on December 2