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
- MAY 4, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. PROMISES GIVEN TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO HALT THE EXECUTION OF MINORS
Iran gave written assurances to the European Parliament that it would cease executing people found guilty of crimes committed before their eighteenth birthday.
- MAY 4, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FIVE CONVICTED MURDERERS HANGED
five men convicted of murder or armed robbery were hanged in Iran, one of them publicly in the southwestern city of Ahvaz and four others in a prison in the capital, officials said.
- MAY 3, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, Bakshesh Mohamad, was executed in Theran
a man, Bakshesh Mohamad, was executed in Theran
- MAY 2, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PRISON
a man accused of murdering a taxi driver was hanged in Karoon Prison in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, according to the state-run news agency.
- APRIL 30, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. GAY BLACKMAILER HANGED
Hadi Safdari, an Iranian convicted of blackmailing his gay partners with videotapes of their sex acts, was hanged. Safdari was executed in Bojnourd in the eastern province of South Khorasan, the Qods newspaper said citing the local judiciary.
- APRIL 30, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
according to the ”Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America...
according to the ”Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America...
- APRIL 28, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
a 50 year old melon seller was sentenced to death by Brach 74 of the punitive court
a 50 year old melon seller was sentenced to death by Brach 74 of the punitive court
- APRIL 27, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
a 22 year old man, identified by his first name Ismail, was given a death sentence
a 22 year old man, identified by his first name Ismail, was given a death sentence
- APRIL 27, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohsen Khoshdel, a 33 year old man was sentenced to death
Mohsen Khoshdel, a 33 year old man was sentenced to death
- APRIL 20, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian convicted of murdering a soldier during an armed robbery has been hanged in Saravan, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, Jam-e-Jam daily reported.
- APRIL 16, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR RAPE, MINOR REPRIEVED
Mousa Ali Mohammadik, an Iranian convicted of raping and abducting more than 40 schoolgirls, was hanged in public but his accomplice teenage son was reprieved.
- APRIL 15, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TEENAGER FACING EXECUTION FOR CRIME COMMITTED AS MINOR
a teenager was sentenced to death for a crime he was alleged to have committed when he was 17 years old, according to the Ettemad daily.