A Critical Approach to Iranian Local Councils

One century of legislation could not provide us with a successful administrative decentralization. Besides social, economic, historical, and such other obstacles, local counsil in Iran as an important part of administrative decentralization program, faces with legal obstacles as well. The constitution takes an unclear position conserning standing and power of local councils and rdinary laws present an unacceptable and disagreeable dissolution process that prejudices the independence of local counsils. To remove these obstacles, in addition to make some reformations in ordinary laws, it is necessary to take a new interpretive approach to the constitution.