Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran world. The Islamic Republic of Iran created shortly after the Islamic Revolution. The first major demonstrations with the intent to overthrow the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi began in January 1978, with a new, Islam-based, theocratic Constitution being approved in December 1979, ending the monarchy. The Shah fled Iran in January 1979 after large strikes and demonstrations against him and his regime paralyzed the country. Ayatollah Khomeini would return in February of the same year after a long period of exile, greeted in the capital of Tehran by several million Iranians. The final collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty occurred shortly after
The Rights of the Child in Iran crime, the Article 91 of the Iranian Penal Code might be applied and the offender might be exempt from death penalty. Hanging is the most common form of capital punishment in Iran and it is either carried out in prisons or publicly on squares. The practice of stoning has been limited in the revised version of the Iranian Penal Code (2013). However, the new version of the Penal Code retains the use of stoning as "hadd" punishment. The Article 225 states that “the "hadd" punishment for zina of a man and a woman who meet the conditions of "ihsan" shall