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
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Mousavi executed in Gachsaran on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on September 21
Saeed Ghobadi, Kazem Jamashourani and Hadi Nowruzi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Yari executed in Arak on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Emad Keshvari executed in Taybad on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaviar Khediripour executed in Mahabad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali-Mansour Vafaee executed in Tabriz on September 20
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Malayer on September 20
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran’s Expanding Prison Protest Movement against Executions
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Afagh executed in Mashhad on September 18
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Calling for Life-Saving Medical Treatment for Zeinab Jalalian
Iran’s Longest Serving Female Political Prisoner
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Mirabadi executed in Zanjan on September 17
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghafoor Behboudi and Abdolsalam Mir Panjshir executed in Taybad on September 17