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 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 killed in Karaj on January 8 and 9
Mohammadreza Zamini, Abolfazl Arvin-Talab, Moein Gholami
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four killed during protests in Razavi Khorasan
Mohammad-Amin Hosseini, Sajad Ordouni Kabir, Mousa al-Reza Akbari e Abolfazl Paydar
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Ali Jalilian killed on January 9
- JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 killed in Tehran on January 8
Saeed Shirali, Alireza Salmani, Babak Sadeghi Mohseni, Ali Molaaqaei Rouzbehani, Ali Janani
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansoureh Heidari and her husband Behrouz Mansouri killed
By Iranian forces in Bushehr
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamilollah Shahi and Mohammad Ashraf executed in Taybad on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ariana Arjmandi shot dead in Borujerd
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 18-year-old Zahra Bohlouli Pour killed in Tehran
Student of Italian Language at the University of Tehran
JANUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Qazvin on January 7
Hessam Moloudnejad, Alireza Yadegar + 2
- JANUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Alishahi executed in Qom on January 4