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 26, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO EXECUTIONS IN MASHAD
According to the Iranian daily newspaper Quds, two men
- APRIL 25, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
ONLY SIX AFGHANS EXECUTED IN IRAN, ENVOY TELLS AFGHAN SPEAKER
Iran's deputy ambassador met with Afghani Senate Speaker Prof Hazrat Sebghatollah Mojaddedi and allegedly dismissed the rumour that 45 Afghans had been executed and 3,000 others were in jail in Iran.
- APRIL 23, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SENTENCES ETHNIC KURDISH CITIZEN TO DEATH
a Kurdish citizen was sentenced to death by a revolutionary court
- APRIL 20, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
The official website of Khuzestan (southwestern Iran) judiciary reported that
- APRIL 19, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS MAN FOR RAPE
Iran hanged an unidentified man for rape in a prison in the southeastern province of
- APRIL 19, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS TWO RAPISTS
Iran hanged two convicted rapists in a prison in the central city
- APRIL 19, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: FOUR HANGED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Iran hanged four men in a prison in the southeastern province of Kerman for drug smuggling
APRIL 15, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: WOMAN PROTESTER SENTENCED TO DEATH
a female protester arrested in the Ashura protests in Iran in 2009 was sentenced to
- APRIL 14, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE CONVICTED RAPISTS PUBLICLY HANGED
Three men were hanged in public in the northern Iranian city of Babolsar, reported
- APRIL 14, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. PUBLIC EXECUTION
one man was hanged in public in the town of Khoramshahr, in the southwest Iranian province of Khuzestan, according to the official website of the Khuzestan judiciary.
- APRIL 13, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ARMED ROBBER HANGED
Iran publicly hanged a man and amputated the limbs of another for armed robbery in
- APRIL 11, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE MEN HANGED IN ISFAHAN
Three men were hanged in the prison of Isfahan, in central Iran, reported the state run news agency Fars.