TEHRAN, Nov. 09 (MNA) � Head of the Judiciary has criticized �some remarks� voiced by President Rouhani in his visit to Press Expo on Saturday about the Judiciary as �dubious.�

Ayatollah Sadegh�Amoli Larijani who was addressing a meeting of Judiciary high-ranking officials on Monday, touched upon Press Expo underway in Tehran, emphasizing the �unique and unparalleled� role of the media in communicating transparent news and promoting the level of public ethics and understanding; �in many occasions we have sought help of the media; however, the media, to attend to its true responsibility of fighting and exposing corruption, needs support of the Judiciary as well; our general recommendations to judges in hearing media cases is that they should consider the place of the media as playing critical role of sources of information,� Ayatollah Amoli Larijani told the meeting.

He criticized what he called �disturbing the public opinion� by some of the media, and accordingly �the Judiciary has a mission to prevent crime in line with its inherent duty to protect the media; this is quite unacceptable that the media abandon their role of making the public informed and promoting the public literacy, function as enemies� mercenaries by receiving financial resources against national security,� he emphasized.

Ayatollah Amoli Larijani then came to �attacks mounted on the Judiciary in the brink of the Parliament elections,� emphasizing that the Judiciary�s guide was compliance with the Constitution and considering the expediencies of the system according to the very text of the Constitution; �such attacks such as human rights issues raised will by no means be effective on our conduct; we invite the press and government officials to help the Judiciary as the pillar of the system; the larger part of the security enjoyed currently in the country are thank to Judiciary�s strong position along with other branches of the government,� he demanded.

�I strictly have eschewed from any remarks which would undermine the spirit of brotherhood and which sow discord among the system components; however, I would only touch what Mr. President has said during his visit to the Press Expo which I deem as dubious along with his accurate advice that criticism of the bodies of government was permitted and that the doors were open for any criticism,� Amoli Larijani said. �One of Mr. President�s remarks indirectly related to the Judiciary and implied that the Judiciary has been corrupt; his second remark that �daily newspapers could provide clues as to whom would be arrested the day after� is inaccurate, against the reality and undermining the place and professional conduct of the Judiciary which only divide the government branches through false stories,� emphasized the head of the Judiciary.

�Such remarks are not expected by the head of one of the government branches; the abuse of information by any newspaper could not be related to the Judiciary,� he objected.

By Mehr News Agency