The Legal Status of International NGOs in International Law and in the Iranian Legal Syste

International law pays special attention to certain rules and procedures relating to legal status of international non-governmental organizations. Having presumed the necessity of conformity of domestic laws with international law, this paper evaluates degree of compatibility of the Iranian laws relating to legal status of international non-governmental organizations with that of the international law. This study deals with four aspects of non-governmental organizations: definition and nature, typology, legal status and their financial resources. In this regard we attempted to shed some lights on ambiguous points existing in both international norms and the Iranian legal system relating to such organizations and, hence, offer certain suggestions in this concern.