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, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi,...
The head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi, defended the use of the death penalty to the visiting UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson saying most death sentences passed in Iran were drug-related
- FEBRUARY 18, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
57 people have been condemned to death in Iran since...
57 people have been condemned to death in Iran since the beginning of the year, according to the National Council for Resistance in Iran (NCRI)
- FEBRUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ali Qahremani, 45, was publicly executed by...
Mohammad Ali Qahremani, 45, was publicly executed by hanging in Damavand, northwestern Tehran
- FEBRUARY 12, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a statement...
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a statement said the death sentence issued by the late Imam Khomeyni against the apostate Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie was irrevocable
- FEBRUARY 6, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian opposition said that the Tehran regime...
The Iranian opposition said that the Tehran regime has issued 34 death sentences since the beginning of the current year
- JANUARY 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists...
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar and spokesman for the writer Mohammad Puyandeh, stated that "The relatives oppose the death sentence because they do not seek revenge
- JANUARY 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Judge Mohammad Reza Aqiqi of the Tehran military court...
Judge Mohammad Reza Aqiqi of the Tehran military court gave death penalty to Ali Roshani, Mahamoud Jafarzadeh and Ali Mohseni three former government agents for the murder of two elderly nationalists, Darioush and his wife Parvaneh Forouhar, and two write
- JANUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in...
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed, state radio reported
- JANUARY 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public...
Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public stoning for a woman convicted of murdering her husband with the help of her lover
- JANUARY 10, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hamid Heydari, a convicted murderer was hanged in public...
Hamid Heydari, a convicted murderer was hanged in public in Tehran
- JANUARY 10, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Judiciary Chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi calling...
Iran's Judiciary Chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi calling for merciless and powerful action against drug-trafficking which has paralysed Iran said that currently 800 drug inmates have been sentenced to death
- JANUARY 7, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's...
Hassan Faylom, 39, was hanged in public outside Tehran's Qasr prison, for killing his wife, Fatemeh, 24, and his 19-month old daughter, Melika, stabbing them 41 times "in order to satisfy his lust and that of his lover Mojgan"