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
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: IMMINENT HANGING OF BOY WHO COMMITTED A CRIME WHEN 15
the death sentence for a boy in Iran who had committed a crime when he was only 15 has shocked human rights organizations and activists.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER IN PUBLIC OUTSIDE TEHRAN
Iran hanged a convicted murderer in public in a town just south of the capital Tehran...
- AUGUST 22, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
TWO HANGED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING IN SOUTHEAST IRAN
two drug smugglers were executed in Iranshahr, Iran
- AUGUST 22, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING IN SISTAN-BALUCHESTAN
two men were executed in Zahedan in Iran for drug smuggling.
- AUGUST 22, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER HANGED IN PUBLIC
the Shiraz General and Revolution Court prosecutor reported a public hanging in Shiraz, Iran.
- AUGUST 21, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
Ali Qalandari and Rasul Gord were hanged in Iran. No further details are available.
Ali Qalandari and Rasul Gord were hanged in Iran. No further details are available.
- AUGUST 19, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS 3 FOR RAPE IN LATEST PUBLIC EXECUTION
Iran hanged three men in public for raping a woman, the official media reported.
- AUGUST 16, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
MAN EXECUTED IN SOUTHEASTERN IRAN FOR "TERRORIZING" SOCIETY
the public relations centre of the judiciary department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province in Iran announced that an ‘armed thug’ called Sanaoallah Mirbaluchzehi was sentenced to death for his involvement in an armed kidnapping and for terrorizing society.
- AUGUST 16, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
a prisoner was hanged in public in northern city of Astaneh Ashrafieh...
a prisoner was hanged in public in northern city of Astaneh Ashrafieh...
- AUGUST 14, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS TWO FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Iran hanged two convicted drug smugglers in a prison in the town of Taibad in the eastern Khorasan Razavi province, the student ISNA news agency reported.
- AUGUST 12, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN PUBLICLY HANGS MAN FOR MURDER IN BABLOSAR
an Iranian man was hanged in public in a square in the northern town of Bablosar in Mazandaran province, a press report said.
- AUGUST 9, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
an unnamed man was executed in Iran-Shar, Iran.
an unnamed man was executed in Iran-Shar, Iran.