He was appointed to the job in 1998 when there were five million criminal cases before judicial system. In ten years the figures have doubled and he found them "alarming" for a country with a population of 70 million.
"In next two years we will be faced with an influx of 10 to 12 million cases," Salar-Kia said. He attributed much of the disaster to mullahs' regime economic and social polices.
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the head of the mullahs' Judiciary, said on February 27, 2008, "The trend of legal cases in the Judiciary is overwhelming. The creation of eight million judicial cases during the past year signifies a legal and judicial malady as well as a serious harm to society." He was speaking to a gathering in the southern province of Khuzestan, discussing the problems faced by the institution under his control.
Shahroudi described the creation of eight million judicial cases in one year as a "fundamental problem," and added, "In a country like India, with a population close to one billion, only four million judicial cases are filed annually."
On December 18, 2007, Shahroudi also said, "It is unfortunate that currently eight million cases enter the judicial system annually, which results from more than 1,500 types of offenses outlined in Iranian legal codes." Shahroudi stated that, in addition to these eight million cases, "currently, about four million cases are also overseen by councils formed to resolve disputes."
Thus, according to the regime's head of Judiciary, the number of judicial cases in Iran is close to twelve million. This means that there are 50 times more judicial cases in Iran than in India, taking into consideration differences in population.
In view of the fact that every judicial case involves at least two persons, this means that on average, an Iranian adult would face a judicial proceeding every two years. If we also assume that every Iranian family has about four members, then on average, every family is involved in more than one court case annually.
The state-run daily, Sharq, quoted Shahroudi on April 24, 2004, as saying, "The head of the Judiciary, specified the number of court cases in the country to be in the range of four to five million annually, which is unprecedented in the world." In other words, in less than three-and-a-half years (between 2004 and 2008), the number of court cases under the religious fascism's rule have more than doubled.
The creation of this number of cases and the cancerous bloating of the clerical judicial system is, first and foremost, indicative of the extent of the crimes, cruelty and rights abuses committed under the mullahs' rule. In addition to hanging, stoning, torture, amputation of limbs, and other medieval punishments, the regime has found another way to instill fear in the society by entrapping Iranians in its dreadful judicial system.