Control over the Institutions Supervised by the Leadership in the Legal System of the Islamic Republic of Iran

‘The institutions supervised by the Leadership’ are among the institutions about which there are some ambiguities in terms of legal condition, because there have been no clear definitions of the institutions working under the Leadership and in current laws they are mentioned as merely exceptions to the content of certain laws. It seems that they are intended by the legislator to be small executive institutions, which are of non-governmental nature. The main thesis of the present article is the issue of how these institutions have to be controlled. Treatment of this issue is necessary because many conceive them as institutions that evade being controlled. Others believe that control over them is in contradiction with the authorities of the qualified Muslim jurist. Therefore, the article seeks to cast light on the legal condition of these institutions drawing up the descriptive-analytic method in order to provide an answer to the question whether the institutions working under the Leadership submit themselves to control or not. The most important findings of this research paper are that the present different control systems are qualified enough to exert their control over the institutions working under the Leadership and this does not interfere with the authorities of the Leadership. It is worth noting the fact that even though on the whole no institutions have been made exception to the control mentioned above, in some
instances the Leadership’s permission is considered necessary.