NCRI – Following the clashes about the plunders of the Judiciary, and after issuing an arrest warrant for one of the MPs, Mahmoud Sadeghi.
The vice-president of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Motahari in a letter slammed the Prosecutor of Tehran and said: “if Mahmoud Sadeghi has an actual Private plaintiff, then why such an issue already was not dealt with?, why as soon as he revealed the bank accounts of the Chief Justice, a lawsuit was filed against him? It turns out that the central issue here is the bank accounts of the Chief Justice himself.”
He also added: “the disagreement between the Parliament and the Judiciary in such cases is due to two differences. In your opinion, any criticism or questioning by a MP could be a crime provided that it would not be acceptable and the prosecutor can summon him directly or detain him as well.
On the contrary, we think that any criticism or question could be acceptable or dismissed, however in such cases the judiciary shall respond to this by discussing the issue with the minister of Justice since he is the one who would be responsible for following the case.”
In this letter, Ali Motahari defends Mahmoud Sadeghi who was accused of disturbing the public opinion and defamation by the prosecutor of Tehran. He asks the prosecutor to clarify the issue instead of calling the MP a criminal.
Ali Motahari then addressed the prosecutor in his letter and said:”if we take your views as the criteria, then a number of MPs should be in the prosecutor office by now since they criticize the president and the ministers or they ask questions every day and they would even figure out that their claim was wrong. The main problem is that the judiciary is not responsive to anyone.”
Ali Motahhari also addressed the vice-president of the Iranian Parliament and said:”don’t you think that the Supervisory Law on MPs’ behavior is not an administrative law? Is a judge only responsible for detecting the crimes? Is the Supervisory Board on MPs’ behavior not qualified enough to detect and investigate the misdeeds, However, we believe that any summon of a MP by the prosecutor should be allowed only by the Board permission, which means, if the Board finds out that an MP has committed a misdeed out of his parliamentary duties then the prosecutor is allowed to summon him.
However, the prosecutor
is following a conduct in which it shows the parliament as an impoverished entity and according to that, an MP could be summoned or detained anytime and perhaps they have to turn to flattery in order to resolve issues. I hope you review your own fundamentals.
