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 20, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN EXECUTED IN PUBLIC FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in the western city of Ahvaz, Fars news agency reported. The man was identified by his initials as A.A., he was arrested with 1.375 kilos of heroin.
MAY 18, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran executed two men for drug trafficking in Isfahan Central Prison, FARS
MAY 16, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: STUDENT’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR THROWING ROCKS REVERSED
in Iran, Tehran’s Prosecutor General, Abbas Jaafari Dowlatabadi, announced that the death sentence
- MAY 15, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS
The death sentence for six opposition activists arrested in protests after last year's
- MAY 12, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
EU: IRAN URGED TO DROP DEATH SENTENCE ON TWO 'MOHAREBS'
European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton pleaded with Iran to drop death sentences
- MAY 9, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS 5 KURDISH ACTIVISTS, INCLUDING WOMAN
five Kurdish activists, including a woman, were hanged in Iran's notorious Evin Prison.
MAY 8, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: SIX HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged six men convicted of drug trafficking in
- APRIL 30, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH
in Iran, Tehran lawyer Nasim Ghanavi told the International Campaign for Human
- APRIL 29, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN HANGED IN ARDEBIL
One person was hanged in the prison of Ardebil, in northwestern Iran.
- APRIL 26, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO EXECUTIONS IN MASHAD
According to the Iranian daily newspaper Quds, two men
- APRIL 25, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
ONLY SIX AFGHANS EXECUTED IN IRAN, ENVOY TELLS AFGHAN SPEAKER
Iran's deputy ambassador met with Afghani Senate Speaker Prof Hazrat Sebghatollah Mojaddedi and allegedly dismissed the rumour that 45 Afghans had been executed and 3,000 others were in jail in Iran.
- APRIL 23, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN SENTENCES ETHNIC KURDISH CITIZEN TO DEATH
a Kurdish citizen was sentenced to death by a revolutionary court