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 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TEENAGERS SENT TO THE GALLOWS
two teenage boys who had just turned 18 were taken to be hanged in the early morning for a crime they were alleged to have committed when they were under 18.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN EXECUTED IN EVIN PRISON FOR MURDER
a man identified only as Akbar, was executed in Iran for killing his wife in 2000 because he suspected he was not the father of their nine-month-old baby girl. Akbar set their house ablaze after strangling and stabbing his wife but firefighters succeeding
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
an Afghan, identified only as Abdolghafoor...
an Afghan, identified only as Abdolghafoor...
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN TO EXECUTE FOUR PAKISTANIS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Zahedan revolutionary court in south-eastern Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province sentenced four Pakistanis and one Iranian man to death for drug trafficking.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Hasan...
a man, identified only as Hasan...
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. SUPREME COURT AGAIN UPHOLDS CONVICTED WOMAN'S DEATH SENTENCE
Shahla Jahed, 36, was once again facing imminent execution, after the Supreme Court reportedly upheld her death sentence for the second time.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN TEHRAN
two Iranian men convicted of murder were hanged in a Tehran prison.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
two men, identified only as Sepher and Farshid...
two men, identified only as Sepher and Farshid...
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Gholam-Reza Rigi, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Gholam-Reza Rigi, for drug-related crime.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Hamid Hosna’i, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Hamid Hosna’i, for drug-related crime.
- AUGUST 26, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. DRUG TRAFFICKER PUBLICLY HANGED
an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was publicly hanged in the south-eastern town of Iranshahr...
- AUGUST 26, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s minister of intelligence said that the death sentence...
Iran’s minister of intelligence said that the death sentence of six people involved in the Ahvaz disturbances had been endorsed by the Supreme Court.