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
JULY 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Kazemi executed in Arak on July 14
- JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Yavari executed at Hamedan on July 13
JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Nazarbeigi executed in Hamedan on July 13
JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mosaib Segvand executed in Khorramabad on July 13
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ilia Khalifehzadeh executed in public on July 12
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirza executed in Malayer on July 12
JULY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lennart Monterlos, a Franco-German Citizen, arrested in Iran
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Khoshkalam executed in Rasht on July 10
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six Months On, No Word From Detained British Couple in Iran
Craig and Lindsay Foreman
- JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qom on July 10
- JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9
JULY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in public in Miandoab