Iran
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 869
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 2,156
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions...
- News items in the archive
- 8,610
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Iran is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 869 executions in the country, against 2,156 the year before. The archive holds 8,610 news items on Iran, from 1999 to today.
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IRAN - Golmirza Nejati executed in Aligudarz on December 7
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IRAN - Khosro Nemati executed in Qom on December 7
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IRAN - Morad Bahmani executed in Nishapur on December 7
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IRAN - Kermshah Zaki-Pour executed in Zanjan on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yavar Farhadi executed in Khorramabad on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Rasht on December 7
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IRAN - Mansour Akhlaqi executed in Dezful on December 6
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IRAN - Alimorad Ansari and Hossein Kochar’I executed in Qazvin on December 6
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IRAN - Amin Panahizadeh executed in Sanandaj on December 6
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IRAN - Yahya Miri and Salar Rezaei executed in Kermanshah on December 6
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IRAN - Shahram Torkashvand executed in Hamedan on December 6
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IRAN - Farid Zare’i executed in Karaj on December 6
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DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Barakhas Farzi and Khodadad Khosravi executed in Khorramabad on December 6
DECEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Ramin Zeleh sentenced to death
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IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on December 5
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IRAN - Hosseinali Yeganeh executed in Birjand on December 4
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IRAN - Rahim Mansouri executed in Kashmar on December 4
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IRAN - Artam Ghaffouri executed in Mahabad on December 4
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IRAN - Yousef Jamshidi executed in Bandar Abbas on December 3
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IRAN - Amir Emami executed in Ghezel-Hesar on December 3
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IRAN - Azad Changa executed in Naghadeh on December 3
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IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Mashhad on December 3
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IRAN - Mostafa Farhadi executed in Ahar on December 3
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IRAN - Mehdi Javanmardi executed in Rasht on December 3
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IRAN - Safa Jowzipour executed in Gonabad on December 3