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
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Joint Statement by Oslo Conference Participants
“Human Rights in Post-Islamic Republic Iran,” 18-19 October 2025
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Azim Dastavar + 1 executed in Yazd on October 21
- OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Azim Dastavar executed in Yazd on October 21
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 21
Amir Hamzeh Shahouzehi, Serajaddin Abi-Talebi, Mohammad Shams
- OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on October 21
Shahram Mirzaei, Eghbal Khazaei, and Ahmad …
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qazvin on October 21
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence of Abbas Deris (Abbas Daris) Overturned
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Goodarz Mousavi executed in Gachsaran on October 21
- OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalil Ashouri executed in Mashhad on October 21
- OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Karim Selouki executed in Bojnurd on October 21
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sasan Lorestani executed in Kermanshah on October 21
OCTOBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fardin Vafayipour and Mohammad Karim Solouki executed in Boroujerd on October 21