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 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TEN 'CONVICTED MURDERERS' HANGED
ten men convicted of murder were hanged in a prison in the Iranian capital.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the execution sentence of a young man only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the execution sentence of a young man only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
the execution sentence of a man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B.,
the execution sentence of a man, identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B.,
- APRIL 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
two “young men”, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging in Iran
two “young men”, identified as Sourosh and Nader, were sentenced to hanging in Iran
- APRIL 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HUSBAND
Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a 35-year-old woman, Fatemeh Haghighatpajouh who killed her husband, Bahman, after he raped her 15-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. Only the intervention of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seye
- APRIL 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a court in Tehran, Iran, sentenced 19-year-old Faraz A. to hanging.
a court in Tehran, Iran, sentenced 19-year-old Faraz A. to hanging.
- APRIL 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. GOVERNMENT DENIES EXECUTING POLITICAL PRISONERS
Iran's justice minister rejected an accusation that the Islamic regime was executing political prisoners and dismissed such concerns as "sheer lies".
- APRIL 17, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Ali “M”, 59...
a man, identified only as Ali “M”, 59...
- APRIL 17, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Somayeh...
a man, identified only as Somayeh...
- APRIL 16, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. ‘YOUNG MAN’ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TEHRAN
a young Iranian man was sentenced to death in Tehran according to the state-run news agency, Fars.
- APRIL 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR ADULTERY, DRUG DEALING
an Iranian man convicted of a number of crimes including drug dealing, adultery and sexual harassment has been hanged in public in the northern province of Qazvin, the Etemad Melli newspaper said.
- APRIL 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
NETHERLANDS. IRANIAN GAYS CAN STAY - FOR THE TIME BEING
the Netherlands Parliament has rebuffed a call by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk to end a moratorium on the deportation of gay asylum seekers from Iran.