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- -, - -. The Necessity of Criminalisation of Terrorism in Iran’s Criminal Laws. CLR 2007; 11 (2) :47-72
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Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, nevertheless, threats of sush an evil to the contemporary societies make it distinctive from the other phenomena crossing law and others. The threats resulting from terrorist activities have never been limited to a particular territory but it has been changed in to a global threat. Terrorism attacks the values that lie at the heart of the Charter of the United Nations: respect to human rights; the rule of law; rules of war that protect civilians; tolerance among peoples and nations and the peaceful resolution of conflict. Therefore, the United Nations has, so far, passed a diversity of conventions to fight terrorism. The UN Security Council has also adopted different resolutions requiring the states to figh terrorism.
The advent of communication revolution, increasing number of air traveling, privatization of global economy and globalization and world with no boundaries are some phenomena which have been taken benefit from by the terrorists to attain their goals via dispersing insecurity all over the world. It seems that the legal system of Iran is not well-equipped with effective and updated machinery to fight terrorism. The crime of Moharaba (resorting to arms in order to frighten people), as an instance of terrorist activities, has been penalized by the Iranian legislature, but diversity and complicacy of the concerned activities, the ongoing organized and transnational feature of considerable number of sush activities and failure in retorting them properly are some, evidence that necessitates to have a review on such a phenomenon i.e. terrorism and criminalization of the related activities. The Iranian legislature should notice this important issue and attemp to pass working laws on fighting terrorism in its different dimensions.
Received: 2005/02/28 | Accepted: 2006/07/26 | Published: 2007/06/22
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