Changing the use of agricultural lands and orchards in Iranian criminal law

Currently, the change of agricultural lands is one of the important challenges of Iran's agricultural sector. Land use change annually removes a large part of agricultural land from the production cycle. The legislature has not yet adopted a consistent approach to deal with this crime, so that the 70s can be considered a period of deliberation and drawing, the 80s a period of change and regulation, and the 90s a period of weakening and destroying penal policy to preserve agricultural land use. And he knew the gardens.Land use change analysis and examining the strengths and weaknesses of legislation, along with paying attention to the proper judicial procedure, can reveal the existing challenges and gaps. In this article, I will analyze the elements of this offense and the possible interpretations of exceptions to land use change in an analytical manner. Then, according to the changes in the Islamic Penal Code adopted in 1392 in grading crimes and setting deadlines, we will answer the question of whether this action is considered a punishment or not by scrutinizing the nature of "tin and repression". According to the selected basis and subject, the writing method of this research is descriptive-analytical and library data has been used in data collection.