IRNA Justice Minister, Hojatoleslam Mostafa Pour Mohammadi said on Sunday that sound implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) proves the legitimacy of the Iranian nation. Addressing staffers at the ministry, Pour-Mohammadi said there is no doubt that the JCPOA should be regarded as the best achievement in nuclear talks with ...

IRNA Armenia Chairman of the Investigative Committee and Inspectorate General Aghvan Hovsepyan on Sunday highlighted longstanding amity with Iran despite religion divide. He made the remarks in a meeting with Minister of Justice Mustafa Pour Mohammadi. Hovsepyan said that all Iran's neighbors are Muslim, except Armenia and that although Armenians ...

According to a report by ICANA, as translated by IFP, Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that death penalty cant be removed, because there are corrupt people inside the country who cant be corrected with any other type of punishment. Therefore, he added, capital punishment should not be rejected given the Islamic law and numerous ...

Tehran, June 28, IRNA - Iran's Minister of Justice Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said here on Tuesday that the number of inmates in Iran declined by 12.5 percent during the past Iranian calendar year, ended March 19,2016. Speaking in a local gathering, Pour-Mohammadi put the number of prisoners last year at 478,819, adding the figure showed a decline of ...

Tehran, June 8, IRNA Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said on Wednesday that Canada refuses to hand over former chief of Melli Bank of Iran Mahmoud Reza Khavari despite Canada signed up international anti-corruption treaty. Mahmoud Reza Khavari is former chief of Melli Bank of Iran, a suspect in a 2011 embezzlement scandal. He escaped to ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has approved a proposal to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Washington over a US court ruling on the confiscation of the Central Bank of Iran's assets, Iranian justice minister announced. Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said at a television talk show on ...

Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said that Iran perceives the United States as a country that supports terrorism and drug trafficking. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Iran perceives the United States as a country that supports terrorism and drug trafficking, Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said Thursday. "I want to say that we ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and Russian officials signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand mutual cooperation in judicial fields. The MoU was signed between Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi and his Russian counterpart Vladimirovich Konovalov in a meeting on the sidelines of the International Anti-Corruption Conventions Conference ...

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IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. There was no single story dominating the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday. Formation of a new party by the inner circle of Ahmadinejad which was immediately ...

[caption id="attachment_141264" align="alignright" width="234"] File photo shows Iran's Minister of Justice Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi[/caption] A senior Iranian official says the country's war on drugs has imposed enormous costs and a huge loss of life on the country. Irans Minister of Justice Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Monday that the majority of ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) Iranian and Cypriot Justice Ministers signed two agreements on extradition and transfer of criminals. In his trip to Cyprus, Irans Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi met and discussed with his Cypriot counterpart. Elaborating on the legal structure of the Islamic Republic, Iran's Minister of Justice explained the Justice ...

Tehran, Nov 22, IRNA - Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi on Saturday called for expansion of cooperation among all countries tp tackle terrorism. He made the remarks in a meeting with Cypriot Foreign Minister Loannis Kasoulides in Nicosia. Pointing to the current sophisticated situation in the Middle East and the world as well as the presence ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Irans Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said on Thursday that the nation had no fear of enemys psychological war which would never come to an end. The arrogant powers have conducted a massive propaganda campaign against the leaders and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran in recent years, said Pour-Mohammadi during a cultural ...

Tehran, July 6, IRNA Ten orthodox Members of Parliament in a letter to Minister of Justice Mostafa Pour Mohammadi on Sunday called for restrictions for former President Mohammad Khatami in public. They called the former president?s photo or image not to be distributed in public while barring him from public speech. Member of Majlis presiding board ...

Tehran, April 10, IRNA Justice ministers of Iran and Iraq underlined the need for further promotion of judiciary cooperation between the two countries. Iran?s Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi who is in Iraq at the invitation of his Iraqi counterpart, Hassan al-Shammari discussed issues of mutual interest in legal and judicial fields. They ...

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Tehran, April 7, IRNA Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi is to visit Iraq at the head of a delegation on Tuesday. The visit will take place upon an invitation of Iraqi minister of justice. The two are to discuss issues of mutual interests including implementation of a previously inked agreement on extradition of convicted criminals. In ...

Rouhani aims to bring to justice those who benefited from Western sanctions. Tehran: Iran has arrested several anticorruption officials on fraud charges, the justice minister announced on Sunday. In the Government Discretionary Punishments Organisation [GDPO], some of our colleagues have been corrupted, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi said, quoted by ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian news agency says the justice minister has concluded there is "no need" to finish off a convict who survived his hanging. A Tuesday report by the semi-official ISNA quoted Mostafa Pourmohammadi as saying there is "no need for re-execution" of the 37-year-old convicted of smuggling drugs who only was identified by his ...