Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- 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
JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojat Shahriari executed in Borazjan on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sardar Mohammad executed in Bandar Abbas on January 21
- JANUARY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Online conference in support of the #NoToExecutionTuesdays campaign
- JANUARY 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholamreza Seyed Mohammadkhani and Aref Azizi executed in Mashhad on January 20
- JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahram Valipour and Hossein Farhadi executed in Gorgan on January 19
JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy
JANUARY 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Mohammadi executed in Arak on January 19
- JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Two Iranian supreme court judges shot dead
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh
JANUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mass Executions Behind The Elimination of Iranian Judges
Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghise
JANUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Yasin arrives in Germany
Iranian-Kurdish rapper once on death row
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Third man executed in Khorrambad on January 16
Mohammad Amiri-Bahravand
JANUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Zeinabi and Saman Davoudian executed in Khorramabad on January 16