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
- OCTOBER 16, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ARAB RIGHTS GROUP APPEALS TO UN AGAINST AHWAZI EXECUTIONS
the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization issued an appeal to Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, protesting the imminent execution of six Ahwazi Arabs in Ahwaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan in southwestern Iran.
- OCTOBER 15, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: YOUNG WOMAN FACING EXECUTION
a young Iranian woman accused of killing an 80 year old man who allegedly held her prisoner in his home may be executed within days.
- OCTOBER 14, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran arrested a prominent rights activist who has campaigned against the death penalty on charges...
Iran arrested a prominent rights activist who has campaigned against the death penalty on charges...
- OCTOBER 10, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. EXECUTIONS REACH 265 DEATHS IN A YEAR
Iran has executed 265 people in the past twelve months in a dramatic increase
- OCTOBER 10, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO HANGED IN IRANIAN KURDISTAN
two Iranians, Kiumars and Nader Mohammadi have been hanged in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province, authorities announced.
- OCTOBER 8, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN WANTS TO TRANSFER 16 AFGHAN CHILDREN SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION IN IRAN
the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced that 16
- OCTOBER 4, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN. PAPER FEARS CHILD DRUG SMUGGLERS FACE HANGING IN IRAN
16 Afghan children were arrested by Iranian border forces on the Islam Qala-
- OCTOBER 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Abolfazl F., 33...
a man, identified only as Abolfazl F., 33...
- OCTOBER 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER, SODOMY AND OTHER CRIMES
a man, identified as Shanuz Morovati, was hanged in a public square in Iran after
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THE JUDICIARY ADVISOR DEFENDS THE PUNISHMENT OF STONING TO DEATH
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, the mullahs’ Judiciary Chief Advisor and an ideologue
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE MEN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR RAPE OF 12 WOMEN
Iran hanged three men in public for raping and robbing twelve young women, most of them university
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL: IRAN SHOULD STOP EXECUTING CHILDREN
Iran should immediately halt the execution of children, the