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
APRIL 19, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN HANGED FOR RAPE
a man convicted of raping a woman five years ago was hanged in a prison in
- APRIL 18, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
MAN HANGED IN IRAN FOR MURDER
a man convicted of murder was hanged in a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, a local newspaper reported.
- APRIL 14, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: DEATH PENALTY OVERTURNED AGAINST TWO IRANIAN KURDS
Iran overturned the death penalty sentence against two Kurdish Iranians, the Amir Kabir University of Technology website reported, citing the defendants’ lawyer.
APRIL 10, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE PEOPLE HANGED OVER 2008 MOSQUE BOMBING
Iran executed three people, two of them University students, convicted of being involved in the bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz which killed 14 people and injured 200 others in April 2008.
- APRIL 9, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: DELARA AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF EXECUTION
Delara Darabi, the young artist who has been in Rasht prison for the last 5 years in Iran, is at great risk of execution at any moment
- APRIL 7, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: JOURNALIST BOUTIMAR'S DEATH SENTENCE SUSPENDED
the death sentence issued in Iran to Kurdish journalist Hiwa Boutimar was suspended,
- APRIL 6, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRANIAN JUVENILE OFFENDER, SENTENCED TO DEATH, HOPES TO SAVE HER LIFE
the lawyer of Delara Darabi, a 23-year-old Iranian woman in prison and facing execution for murder, told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that she is still hoping the family of the victim will intervene and save her life.
MARCH 29, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: YOUNG PRISONER EXECUTED IN SANANDAJ CENTRAL PRISON
Rahmat Sadeqi, a resident of Sanandaj, Iran, was executed in late March in Sanandaj's Central Prison.
- MARCH 27, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ANOTHER JUVENILE TO BE EXECUTED
Amnesty International warned of the imminent execution of juvenile offender Abumoslem Sohrabi, now 24, from Firouzabad, in Fars Province in Iran.
- MARCH 25, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN CONSIDERING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘OFFENSIVE’ BLOGGERS
Al Jazeera’s Nazanin Sadri reported that Iran is considering a new law that would allow the death penalty for “offensive” bloggers.
MARCH 20, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: ONE MAN HANGED IN SIRJAN
One man was hanged last week in the prison of Sirjan (south-east Iranian province
- MARCH 14, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
three Iranian men were hanged in prison for murder in the southern city
three Iranian men were hanged in prison for murder in the southern city