Reinvestigating the Compound Crime in the Criminal Law of Iran

To discriminate compound crimes from simple ones as the result of dividing the crimes according to the material element from different aspects (like the circumstance of committing a crime, findings of the legal enforcement, a statute setting a time limit on legal action, determining the criminal liability and the proper trial) is important. However the nature of this offense has not been stated clearly in the Iranian criminal law and has only mentioned brief explanations and indicated one sample (fraud). To interpret the complicated nature of the compound crimes, we could have two different notions. First, the meaning of compounding a crime is that the material element consists of the several parts. But this understanding confronts a clear problem because in this situation, at least all the result offenses which their material elements are composed of conduct and results should name the compound