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
- DECEMBER 6, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: NO WARNING OF YOUTH'S HANGING, LAWYER CLAIMS
Saiid Eghbal, the lawyer of hanged homosexual Iranian youth Makwan Moloudzadeh...
- DECEMBER 5, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. YOUNG MAN EXECUTED
the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) learned that
- DECEMBER 5, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS FIVE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
five people were hanged in southern Iran for drug trafficking and possession of arms...
- DECEMBER 2, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. GAY YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH
a gay Iranian youth was sentenced to death for the crime of "lavat" (literally, sodomy), for having sex at 1
- DECEMBER 2, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
three men were hanged in public on Motahhari square of the city of Qom...
three men were hanged in public on Motahhari square of the city of Qom...
- DECEMBER 2, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a man was hanged in the central prison of Zahedan...
a man was hanged in the central prison of Zahedan...
- NOVEMBER 26, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in a prison in the central city of Isfahan...
- NOVEMBER 24, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
TWO EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLINF IN IRAN'S SISTAN-BALUCHESTAN
according to the announcement of the provincial judiciary department...
- NOVEMBER 22, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged in public a prisoner named Amin...
Iran hanged in public a prisoner named Amin...
- NOVEMBER 21, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in a square in the clerical capital
- NOVEMBER 21, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN MUST IMMEDIATELY ABOLISH CHILD EXECUTION – IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
despite the UN convention on human rights, Iran continues to execute children under 18. “Iran must immediately abolish child execution,” Mina Ahadi, an Iranian human rights activist...
- NOVEMBER 20, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FIVE HANGED ON DRUGS CHARGES
Iran hanged five men for drug trafficking, local media reported, the latest in a g