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 23, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Tehran's Justice Department has announced that next...
Tehran's Justice Department has announced that next week five members of a gang known as Karkas-ha [Vultures] will be hanged simultaneously in five different districts of Tehran
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
State-run dailies reported the execution of a woman...
State-run dailies reported the execution of a woman in Tabriz, the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported in the October issue of its monthly bulletin 'Women' published on the Iran Mohajedin website
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Six men were hanged in Iran since September 16 and...
Six men were hanged in Iran since September 16 and eight others face the same sentence after being convicted on charges ranging from murder to armed robbery, newspapers said
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Rioting broke out in Mahabad, northwestern Iran, after...
Rioting broke out in Mahabad, northwestern Iran, after police killed three people smuggling alcoholic beverages, the Resalat newspaper reported
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in...
A man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in a prison in north-eastern Iran
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) said...
The World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) said official Iranian media reported 250 executions since the beginning of 2002
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The Jomhuri-Ye Eslami daily reported that a man convicted...
The Jomhuri-Ye Eslami daily reported that a man convicted of armed robbery was hanged in public in southern Iran
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man cut off his seven-year-old daughter's...
An Iranian man cut off his seven-year-old daughter's head after suspecting she had been raped by her uncle, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper said
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court for the first time granted the family...
An Iranian court for the first time granted the family of a murdered Christian man the same "blood money", or compensation, as that of a Muslim, the official news agency IRNA reported
- AUGUST 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Three men were hanged in Tehran's Qasr prison after...
Three men were hanged in Tehran's Qasr prison after being convicted of murder in separate cases
- AUGUST 21, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A man convicted of blackmailing and killing two men...
A man convicted of blackmailing and killing two men was hanged in Tehran's Qasr prison
- AUGUST 21, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mazidi was hanged in prison in Tehran
Ali Mazidi was hanged in prison in Tehran