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 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of seven more killed during Tehran protests
Mobin Ghanbari, Mohammad Matin Mosleh, Ali Aghajani, Majid Astir, Alireza Javaheripi, Amir Ahmadi, Ali Orouji
- JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 26th day of protests: 5002 confirmed fatalities, 9,787 still under investigation
Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 killed in Kermanshah and Badreh
Mohanna Dokushkani, Armin Dadfar, Omid Shojaeian
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identifies of 5 killed in Karaj
Mohsen Arbabi, Amin Heidari, Ali Moradi, Amir Mohsen Allahyari, Ashkan Alipour
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 4 killed in Arak
Mehrdad Moshtagh, Amir Hossein Dowlatabadi, Meysam Saberi Karharoudi, Ehsan Akbari
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 4 killed in Shahrekord, Kerman, Yazd, and Lordegan
Alireza Ahmadi Babadi, Mehdi Iranpour, Danial Karshenas, Ali Khaledi
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of ten people killed in Gilan and Mazandaran
Abbas Keshavarz, Matin Khosravi, Mahmoud Farajnia, Mohammad Hajipour, Reza Samieipour, Pouya Khairkhah, Ershad Shahbazi, Hamed Bamdadi (Aliabadi), Yahya-Kia Deliri, Manouchehr Nikpour
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 21 people killed in Isfahan Province
Hossein Mahmoudi Baram, Pouya Qashqaei, Abdollah Adibi, Hossein Barati, Abbas Aminzadeh, Mehdi Abdali, Iman Najjar Hosseini, Amir Abbas Baghestani, Mobin Ashouri, Mehdi Abdali, Seyed Hossein Mousavi, Javad Ranjbar, Mohammad Khalili, Peyman Barati, Majid H
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of ten Kurds killed in Tehran, Karaj, Qazvin, and Mashhad
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester (of 2023) Armin Nour-Mohammadi sentenced to death
On charges of moharebeh
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 14 men executed from January 19 to 22
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR report on 25th day of protests: 3428 victims confirmed
Regime provides downward figures on victims of protests