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
- FEBRUARY 20, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE MEN HANGED IN PUBLIC
According to reports from Iran, three men were hanged in public in the town of Salmas, northwest of Iran.
FEBRUARY 20, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO PEOPLE HANGED IN ISFAHAN
Two men were hanged in the prison of Isfahan, central Iran, early this morning.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FOUR PEOPLE HANGED IN KERMAN
Four men were hanged in the prison of Kerman, south east of Iran.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: EXECUTIONS REQUESTED
in Zahedan, Iran, the prosecutor in Sistan-va-Balouchestan, Ebrahim Hamidi...
FEBRUARY 15, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO PEOPLE HANGED IN KURDISTAN
Two people were hanged in the prison of Sanandaj, the capital of the Iranian Kurdistan
- FEBRUARY 14, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO MEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Two men were hanged in the prison of Sari, north of Iran. According to the official
FEBRUARY 13, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO MEN HANGED IN PUBLIC
Two men were hanged in the town of Khoramabad, in the west Iranian province of
- FEBRUARY 11, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: IRANIAN TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iranian carpet seller Hossein Nsiri Zahed, 50, was sentenced to hang by Justice Ghazali
FEBRUARY 10, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN HUMAN RIGHTS: AT LEAST 546 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN IRAN IN 2010
Iran Human Rights (IHR) presented its annual report on the death penalty in 2010 in a press
FEBRUARY 7, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: 10 HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
According to reports from reliable sources in Iran, ten people were hanged in Vakilabad prison of Mashhad, northeast of Iran.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN EXECUTES 2 IN TORTURE DEATHS
A pro-government web site says Iran has executed two prison officials convicted of
- FEBRUARY 6, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN EXTENDS ENFORCEMENT OF ISLAMIC PENAL CODE, INCLUDING STONING
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad extended for another year enforcement of the Islamic Penal