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 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence of Mohammad-Javad Vafaei Sani Upheld
Political prisoner
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Lerni and Ahmad Arzani executed in Isfahan on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Saqaei executed in Sabzevar on October 6
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lennart Monterlos acquitted of charges of espionage for Israel
Young French-German tourist
OCTOBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shah-Hossein Afshar executed in Nishabur on October 6
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sobhan Najafi executed in Malayer on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Meysam Khodadadi executed in Gorgan on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on October 5
Jahanbakhsh Rakhshani, Mohammad Soltanpour, Farzad Rasoulzadeh
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mozaffar Doroudi executed in Semnan on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohsen Barzegar executed in Qazvin on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour Mohammad Naseri executed in Shiraz on October 5
- OCTOBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Erfan Afzali executed in Sari on October 5