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
NOVEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sharif Jaberi executed in Saveh on November 27
NOVEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ezzatollah Nashri + 1 executed in Bojnurd on November 26
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IRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on November 26
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IRAN - Hormoz Nejati executed in Esfarayen on November 26
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IRAN - Noushad Amiri executed in Qazvin on November 26
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IRAN - Sadegh Rafiei executed in Isfahan on November 26
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IRAN - Ali Saye-Afkan and Mehrdad Pourhassan executed in Rasht on November 26
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IRAN - Hamid Yousefzahi executed in Shiraz on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mina Sadoughi (woman) and Farrokh Pourfarzi executed in Shiraz on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Heydar and Mohammad-Hossein Khazaei executed in Ghezel-Hesar on November 26
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IRAN - Hormoz Nejati executed in Esfarayen on November 26