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 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Zeynab Khodabandeh, and Sobhan Safinezhad executed in Isfahan on October 13
40th woman executed in Iran in 2025
OCTOBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Darvishi executed in Minab on October 13
OCTOBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arian Moradi executed in Jiroft on October 13
- OCTOBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman 3 men executed in Isfahan on October 13
Zeinab Khodabandeh, Peyman Alizadeh, Massoud Mansouri, Sobhan Safinejad
- OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Sohrabi and Behzad Moridan executed in Arak on October 12
- OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Roshani executed in Kashan on October 12
- OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saadi Khalifeh executed in Dezful on October 12
- OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fardin Parvizi executed in Semnan on October 12
- OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Abdali executed in Dezful on October 12
OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Mirzaei and Ayub Latifian executed in Khorramabad on October 12
OCTOBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Hasanpour executed in Rasht on October 12
- OCTOBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Homayoun Safari executed in Ilam on October 11