Iran
2026
- 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
JANUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 14 more individuals killed in Gilan and Mazandaran confirmed
JANUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amanch Karavanchi and Arsalan Sheikhi executed in Ghezel-Hesar on January 24
Kurdish prisoners of conscience
- JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
In Geneva, on January 23
- JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of 12 killed in Isfahan
Amirreza Fathian, Masih Shahvardi, Soheil Zilabi, Hossein Rahimi, Mohsen Chitsaz, Mohammad-Hossein Mousavi, Pouria Hamzaei, Ali Estakhr, Alireza Kharbo, Alireza Yazdani, Alireza Mousavi, Hamidreza Vatanjou
- JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of 10 killed in Tehran
Amirhossein Javadzadeh, Omid Fallahipour, Mehdi Aghahosseini, Karim Touni, Mohammad Goli, Artin Abdollahi, Yaser Ezzati Nosratian, Mohammad Mehdi Saifollahpour, Mostafa Afshar, Mehdi Mirzaei, Amirali Parvizi
- JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of 9 university students killed
Artin Abdollahi, Zahra Mahmoudpour, Danial Diani, Ahmadreza Ghaderi, Mohammadreza Alikhani, Hamidreza Vatanjou, Alireza Yazdani, Sina Kazemi, Mostafa Sarafraz Ardakani
- JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of ten women killed
Sona Yekta, Mohana Dokoshkani, Setayesh Sousanabadi, Nahayat Rahimi Dashti, Jamileh Shafiei, Hajar Eshaqi, Faeezeh Mostaan, Zahra Azadpour, Fatemeh Abdollahi, Shokoufeh Abdi
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 27th day of protests: 5,137 confirmed deaths, 12,904 still under investigation
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Bullet Fees”
The regime demands large fees from families to release the bodies of the victims
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 12 Kurdish killed in Kermanshah
Nazanin Zahra Salehi, Mohammad Matin Bagheri, Farhad Nazari Gorajouei, Hassan Nouri, Hamidreza Yousefi, Pedram Argha, Farhad Cheraghi, Sayad Faramarzi, Behrouz Narimanimehr, Amirali Abbasifar, Gholamhossein Ahadi, Alireza Eftekhari
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 11 killed in Markazi Province
Ahmad Hashemi, Matin Moshtaghi, Iman Behdari, Saeed Taqvaei, Abolfazl Beikmohammadi, Mohammadreza Najafi, Jaber Salehi, Hassan Ghaderi, Mohammad Ranjbar, Mohammad Soltanifar, Behnam Kashani
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 2 killed in Ilam
Milad Sademiri, Mehdi Ghanbari