Criminal liability for the transmission of Covid 19 virus in the Iranian legal system

Despite of the prevalence of Covid-19 in the country, due to itsemergence, power and high speed of transmission of the virus, there are notenough grounds for a standard response to it in the country, as well as themost countries of the world. Prior to the prevalence of the virus, although theprevalence of infectious diseases has occurred in the country before, theattitude of the Iranian legal system towards infectious diseases has been atransient event. Accordingly, the liability of the transmitters of the Covid-19is not fully enforceable under the specific criminal law and criminal liabilityfor the transmission of the virus must be pursued under the generalities ofcriminal law. However, the existence of a special law on the prevention ofsexually and infectious diseases could be promising for the existence ofspecial regulations in this area; However, the antiquity of the law and thelack of updates for it, prevent its effective application. Therefore, this articletries to analyze the criminal responsibility of the transmitters of Covid-19under the criminal headings in the criminal law and to explain the conditionsof compliance of the perpetrator's behavior with each of them. In this regard,it will be suggested that in view of the difficulties of proving the causation inoccurrence of existing criminal titles, the provision of a special legal systemto prevent the spread of the virus and other infectious diseases should beconsidered by the legislature.