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
- 9,218
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 9,218 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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SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men sentenced to death on charges of “collaboration with the Zionist regime”
Also accused of having links with the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK)
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Choubi Asl executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 29
On charges of “intelligence collaboration” with Israel
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IRAN - Hamed Badr-Abadi executed in Malayer on Setember 29
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Jafar Pourvardi, Heydar Rezaipour, Houshang Rahmantalab
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IRAN - Yaser Bakhshi executed in Semnan on September 29
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IRAN - Unk executed in Babol on September 28
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IRAN - Rasoul Nouri executed in Arak on September 28
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IRAN - Esmail Rahimi-Tabar and Ghodrat Dehqani executed in Shiraz on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khashayar Amiri executed in Gorgan on September 28
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IRAN - Aziz Ghorbanifar executed in Bam on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on September 28
Esmail Rahimitabar, Mehran Sahrayi, Manouchehr Shahbazi and Ghodrat Dehghani
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IRAN - Mehran Beyranvand executed in Malayer on September 28
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IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Nahavand on September 28
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