Fraud Crimes and Scamming under Iranian law Unfortunately, with the increased use of the Internet to provide services and sell goods, fraud crimes and scamming has also increased; this phenomenon led to new methods to commit fraud and scamming. One of the new strategies for committing this crime is fraud through the telephone, the internet,…
Mitigation circumstances and extenuating factors under Iranian law – Second Part In the first part of this article (please click “Mitigation of Punishment” to find the first part) we discussed mitigation circumstances and lapse of punishment under Iranian law. Although commutation of the sentence does not always result in a lapse of punishment, in some…
Mitigation of punishment and extenuating factors under Iranian law – First Part Regardless of whether the purpose of punishment in the Iranian legal system is to intimidate perpetrators or make them afraid of committing a crime to provide deterrence, a judge may encounter conditions and circumstances in which he can mitigation the punishment during the…