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
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AUGUST 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Ejbari (Shibak) executed in Birjand on August 10
AUGUST 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Elyasi and Soleiman Naseri Khez executed in Kermanshah on August 9
AUGUST 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tayeb Mahmoudi executed in Ahvaz on August 9
- AUGUST 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Habibi executed in Kermanshah on August 9
AUGUST 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kulthum Akbari who fatally poisoned 11 husbands faces execution
- AUGUST 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hashem Sorkh and Rahman Jahangiri executed in Yazd on August 8
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Isfahan on August 6
Mojtaba Izadi, Reza Sharifzadeh, Naser Javadi, Ali Rajaei, Hossein Rostami
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoners Rouzbeh Vadi and Mehdi Asgharzadeh executed in Ghezel Hesar on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Saeedi and Manouchehr Saeedi executed in Gorgan on August 6
AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Tavakoli and Aryo Jalali executed in Karaj on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholam Saedian and Mostafa Mirahmadi executed in Yasuj on August 6