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
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Bahman Savari, 22, was publicly hanged in the south-western...
Bahman Savari, 22, was publicly hanged in the south-western city of Ahvaz for killing a policeman
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Masoud Eslami, a drug addict who had killed his 53-year-old...
Masoud Eslami, a drug addict who had killed his 53-year-old aunt last year and stole her gold, was executed by hanging in Tehran's Qasr prison
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Qolam Bandak was hanged in Qasr prison on charges of...
Qolam Bandak was hanged in Qasr prison on charges of having beaten to death a 22-year-old inmate
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Noruzian-Tabrizi was executed by hanging in...
Hassan Noruzian-Tabrizi was executed by hanging in the eastern city of Mashhad for murdering his pregnant wife in 1997
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Jalil Badali, Ezatollah Badali and Sedqali Shokati...
Jalil Badali, Ezatollah Badali and Sedqali Shokati were hanged after Iran's Supreme Court approved the death sentences imposed on them
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was hanged in the south-eastern city of Kerman...
A man was hanged in the south-eastern city of Kerman for murdering his ex-wife after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence issued by a lower court
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The daily Iranian newspaper Qods reported that Ali...
The daily Iranian newspaper Qods reported that Ali Taqizadeh, a 70-year-old man, was executed by hanging in the holy city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy...
The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI) wrote a letter to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, on the occasion of the 54th session of the UN General Assembly, in which they criticised President Khatami
- AUGUST 31, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hamid Heydari was sentenced to death by Branch 12 of...
Hamid Heydari was sentenced to death by Branch 12 of the Public Court in Shahr-e Rey for the murder of a member of the Basij Resistance Force
- AUGUST 20, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Three men were hanged in Rejaii Shahr prison in Karaj...
Three men were hanged in Rejaii Shahr prison in Karaj on charges of armed robbery
- AUGUST 20, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abdol-Hossein Mobaraki, 28, received a death sentence...
Abdol-Hossein Mobaraki, 28, received a death sentence on charges of stabbing to death Abbas Shoja-Khah, 55, whilst committing a burglary in the victim's apartment
- AUGUST 20, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A man identified as Mohammad received two death sentences...
A man identified as Mohammad received two death sentences for murdering his sister and nephew in Autumn, 1999