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
- 9,147
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 9,147 news items on Iran, from 1999 to today.
Iran is one of the countries where the association records the highest number of executions each year. The usual method is hanging, and capital punishment applies to a wide list of offences: murder, drug offences, offences against state security, sexual offences, and charges such as moharebeh, enmity against God, which allow very broad application.
Many executions are never announced. They emerge from local sources, from human rights organisations and from families. For Iran, more than anywhere else, the archive's count is a documented minimum.
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- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Over 1,600 executions since the beginning of 2025.
At least 52 were women
NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamyar Fathi and Sajjad Hatami executed in Kermanshah on November 15
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IRAN - Yarmorad Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour-Mohammad Rahmati executed in Aligudarz on November 15
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Gerayi executed in Behbahan on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Rafiei executed in Aligudarz on November 14
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IRAN - Abbas Beigi executed in Yasuj on November 14
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mozaffar Rahmanpanah executed in Nishapur on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - British Prisoners Craig and Lindsay Foreman Go on Hunger Strike
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on November 14
Zabet al-Din (Adel) Jangjou Espidereh, Haji Nabizadeh and Abdolrahman Habibi
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Shamsollahi executed in Zanjan on November 14
1600 executions so far in 2025
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Confirmation of Death Sentences for 3 Political Prisoner
Farshad Etemadifar, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Safa Niazi executed in Shahrekord on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghomri Abbaszadeh, a woman, executed in Sari on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Navabi executed in Shiraz on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iraj Aghayi executed in Sari on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Sadeghi Ghoushchi and Vahid Pakniakan executed in Urmia on November 13
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahriar Nami executed in Khaf on November 12
NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Omid Beqlani executed in Ahvaz on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahriar Nami executed in Khaf on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nezam Saeedi executed in Kerman on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Moridi executed in Aligudarz on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four men executed in Ghezel Hesar on November 12
Unidentified
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaqub Dachi executed in Ilam on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Kazemian and Soroush Haqpanah executed in Ghezel-Hesar on November 12
NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executed at least 1571 persons since the beginning of 2025
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Mokhtari and Shahrokh Mostafavi executed in Isfahan on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saber Fallah executed in Qom on November 12
- NOVEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siamak Ghanbari and Mojtaba Asadi executed in Shiraz on November 12