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 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahdieh Keyhani executed in Hamedan on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended
Political prisoner
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Karim Yousefi, Saman Barzegar, Yazdan Jozipour, Safarali Sadeghi, Nejat Yari, Manouchehr Mahaki, Houshang Amiri, Qanbar Farhadi, Shirzad Chamani
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Sepehr Moradi, Pejman Saeedi, + 4.
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 400 influential women urge to halt execution of Zahra Tabari
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Ghoreishi and Mohammadreza Nikkhah executed in Ghaemshahr on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Mohammad Hassan Sharafi, Emad Asaf, Afshin Tusi, Habib Amouri, Naser Jannatpour, Rastin Karami, Jalal Taheri, Milad Norouzi, Yadollah Almasi
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 23
Mohammadjafar Babaei, Asghar Tavakoli, Ebrahim Hakimi
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh
DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in various prisons on December 22
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Madadi and Kazem Hamidi executed in Gorgan on December 22
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Bastani executed in Isfahan on December 22