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The new Islamic Penal Code of Iran was adopted in May 2013 and entered into force the same year in the Islamic Consultative Assembly. It consists of four books: General Provisions, Ḥudūd, Qiṣāṣ, and Diyāt.

The latest Constitution of Iran which entered into force in 1979 and contains 177 articles].

The Islamic Penal Code of Iran, originally supposed to be a provisional code, was in effect from 1991 till 2013 after being extended several times

The first draft articles on the Islamic Penal Code adopted in Parliament after receiving and debating the Judiciary’s draft.

The second set of draft articles on the new Islamic Penal Code adopted in Parliament, after modifying the first draft in response to the Guardian Council’s objections.

The first round of objections raised by the Guardian Council with regard to Parliament’s 2009 adoption of the first draft of the Islamic Penal Code.

The third set of Islamic Penal Code draft articles adopted in the Iran's Parliament. This draft code at some point became law after Guardian Council’s initial approval. But later the Council revoked its approval and the code lost its authority.

The fourth time Iran's Parliament modified the Islamic Penal Code following the Guardian Council’s objections.

The fifth time Iran's Parliament modified the Islamic Penal Code following the Guardian Council’s objections.

Guardian Council approves of the Iran's Parliament’s Islamic Penal Code of 01.02.2012.

The Guardian Council revokes its prior approval of the Islamic Penal Code adopted by Iran's Parliament and raises another set of objections.

Guardian Council raises objections as to Parliament’s Islamic Penal Code draft articles of 01.07.2013.

This document is the first draft of Criminal Procedure Bill prepared and adopted by the parliament and sent to the Guardian Council for review.

This document is the first round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill (2012). 

This document reflects changes made to the Criminal Procedure Bill following the objections of the Guardian Council.

This documents is the third round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

This documents is the fourth round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

This document reflects the final changes in the Criminal Procedure Bill following the objections of the Guardian Council.

After several revisions made to the original Criminal Procedure Code according to the opinion of the Guardian Council this law became final and entered into force.

Parliament introduced a bill amending 38 articles of the Criminal Procedure Code adopted a year before.

After revising the first draft according to the opinion of the Guardian Council the law amending 38 articles of the Criminal Procedure Code 2014 became final.

This documents is the second round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

This document contains revisions to the Criminal Procedure Bill following the objections of the Guardian Council.

This document contains revisions to the Criminal Procedure Draft following the objections of the Guardian Council.

This documents is the fifth and last round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

Guardian Council raises objections to Parliament’s draft on amending the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code 2014.

In this opinion, addressed to the Official Gazette, the Secretary of the Guardian Council invalidated Article 26 –Note 1 of the Law on the Formation, Duties, and Election of National Islamic Councils 1996. He argued that because Guardian Council does not have any supervisory authority over the decisions of the City Councils (unlike legislative acts), religious minorities could not represent Muslims where majority of residents are Muslims.

A female applicant filed a complaint against the Traffic Police for refusing to grant her a motorcycle license. The Court of Administrative Justice rejected the argument that the police department was allowed to issue such a license only for men and stated that riding a motorcycle has nothing to do with gender and is not prohibited under law.

The plaintiff brought a case before the General Court of Roudehen seeking the Court’s authorization for remarriage. The Court rejected his claimed and stated that Article 16 of the Family Protection Law 1974 was unconstitutional.

The General Body of The Supreme Court of Iran issued a unifying decision requiring the Fund for Bodily Injuries to pay the difference in diyah of men and women both in cases of death and other bodily injuries.