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 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Azizi + 1 executed in Bojnurd on October 7
OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Sabeki executed in Bam on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arsalan Khani and Qasem Sajadi executed in Kermanshah on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad … executed in Qom on October 7
1213 executions in Iran in 2025
OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Rezapour executed in Maragheh on October 7
OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Taybad on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Shah-Hosseini and Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Nasiri executed in Aligudarz on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Qom on October 7
Jafar Reghbati, Farzad Javanmiri and Behnam Saberi
- OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Hosseini executed in Saveh on October 6
- OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahim Tavakoli executed in Isfahan on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Hejrati-Pour executed in Sanandaj on October 6