Analysis of the Function of the Orders of Vali-e-Faqih in Decisions and Comments of the Guardian Council (The Case Study of Legislative Criminal Policy)

Structural and evaluational in criminal legislation is the role of Vali-e-Faqih through governmental rules and social and subordinate social Fatwas (orders) which are called in this article as “Ahkam-e-Nezamie” (Nezamie rules). The main subject of this paper is to clarify the status of Nezamie rules of Vali-e-Faqih in the structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially in the Guardian Council. This can significantly contribute to create a single procedure in the operation of institutions and legal authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the Guardian Council in citation to the Nezamie rules of Vali-e-Faqih. The author believes in the absoluteness of obeying the Nezamie rules of Vali-e-Faqih by all persons and institutions (with the duty of legislation or measuring the regulations) including the Guardian Council through a descriptive-analytic method based on reliable jurisprudential sources, and comments and decisions of the Guardian Council. Therefore, while examining the regulations and acts of the parliament in terms of consistency or inconsistency, The Guardian Council with the presence of the Nezamie rules of Vali-e-Faqih shouldn’t refer to their jurisprudential views. The comments and decisions of the Guardian Council in this respect have been in some instances different.