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'Ă, and Zoroastrian minorities
From the country
- FEBRUARY 4, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi...
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi said that the justice system has decided to replace 'stoning ' with other punishment
- FEBRUARY 3, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Iranian Judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi,...
The head of the Iranian Judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi, in a meeting with EU Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten described the Islamic Shari'ah practice of capital punishment by stoning as a protector of the family unit
- JANUARY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
In a resolution the European Parliament called for...
In a resolution the European Parliament called for the United States, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Congo and others to introduce a moratorium on executions "with a view to completely abolishing the death penalty
- JANUARY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged four gangsters in public after they were...
Iran hanged four gangsters in public after they were convicted for a series of kidnappings and rapes, the official IRNA news agency reported
- JANUARY 28, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Two prisoners on Iran's death row and eight other inmates...
Two prisoners on Iran's death row and eight other inmates held in Varamin prison southeast of Tehran have escaped after using teaspoons to dig a six-metre tunnel, a newspaper reported
- JANUARY 28, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian Supreme Court commuted the death sentences...
The Iranian Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of at least two former secret agents found guilty of the murders of four dissidents in 1998
- JANUARY 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Hedayat Mostowfi, a member of the National Council...
Hedayat Mostowfi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran's Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the EU's open attitude to Iran only encouraged the human rights violations
- JANUARY 22, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's foreign minister was harangued over human rights...
Iran's foreign minister was harangued over human rights by European parliamentarians and protesters in Brussels, but pleaded for more time to reform a culture deeply rooted in tradition
- JANUARY 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ayatollah Mohammad Sajjadi, adviser to the State Supreme...
Ayatollah Mohammad Sajjadi, adviser to the State Supreme Court and one of three judges examining the sentence against Hashem Aghajari said that the death sentence given to the Iranian lecturer and member of the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization, w
- JANUARY 17, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court sentenced one man to death and two...
An Iranian court sentenced one man to death and two others to 10-year jail terms for cooperating with an outlawed leftist Kurdish rebel group, the official IRNA news agency reported
- JANUARY 15, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned newspaper Etemad reported that a young...
The state-owned newspaper Etemad reported that a young man named Azim received a double death sentence
- JANUARY 14, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned Jomhouri Islami daily reported that...
The state-owned Jomhouri Islami daily reported that the head of the justice department in the northern city of Noshahr had announced that a woman named Zeinab was sentenced to flogging and hanging by the local court