Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- 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
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Heydari Tarkashvand executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on July 23
Behzad Gholamzadeh, Latif Karegar, Saman Heydari
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jabbar Alishahi and Ashkan Mahdipanah executed in Hamedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Samalpour Baba Ahmadi executed in Yazd on July 23
JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Khorrami executed in Kermanshah on July 22
JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Afrayi Mardakheh executed in Rasht on July 22
- JULY 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Parsa executed in Aligudarz on July 22
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Zare executed in Arak on July 21
JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khodabakhsh Sepehri executed in Rasht on July 21
- JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 unidentified prisoners executed in Yazd on July 21
JULY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 9 men executed in in Yazd on July 21
Atefeh Amini, Reza Akhiri, Ali Momeni, Bahram Seyed Nasiri, Amirhossein Hassan Khani (Hassankhani), Farkhreddin Raei and four unidentified men
- JULY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 political prisoners sentenced to death