Iranian Criminal law and the phenomenon known as Crush in Cyberspace

Channels and pages known as "Crush" in cyberspace are expanding especially among Iranian youth and students in universities. Members of these channels and pages often express their desire to befriend with the opposite sex without naming or with inserting his/her face. The hidden and obvious contradictions of these behaviors with the value system of Iranian society have raised concerns among the custodians of the affairs in universities and at the community level, so that the judicial, law enforcement, and security agencies in different cities are entering into this issue and dealing with its activists, especially their creators and managers. this social action is new and lack of the legal and judicial experience in criticizing and judging it, have forced the authors before issuing the votes and possibly the unwise treatment of the mentioned device, And by paying attention to the principle of legality of the crime, the extent of its compliance with the various crimes contained in the crime log of our country.

Descriptive-analytical with using field study and also examine several crush pages and channels.

The behavior of members in channels and pages known as crush is in the accordance with the crimes under the Subject of articles 641 and 638 of Islamic punishment law (approved 1996), However, despite some couplings, these cannot be considered as examples of articles 637 and 639 (approved 1996), 130 and 142 (approved 2013). Also, the creators, managers, and advertisers of these pages and channels can be prosecuted as the accessory of the above-mentioned crimes..