Legal Consequences of the Establishment of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Perspective of International Criminal Law

After the events that happened on 17 September 2022 in Moral Security Police building, protests started in Iran. These incidents started in the cities of Saqqez and Tehran and continued for several months in different cities of Iran and the world. After that, there were many reactions in Iran and other parts of the world. Following these protests, the United Nations Human Rights Council, by issuing Resolution A/HRC/S-35/L.1, established an "Independent International Fact-Finding Mission". The establishment of the fact-finding commission is one of the most important mechanisms of the Human Rights Council for protecting human rights through the investigation of violations in United Nation’s Member States when observing human rights in that country is worrying and the Council should confront with this situation and prevent from impunity. The research method of this article is analytical-descriptive and the method of collecting information is library method. The main question of this research is what will be the effects and legal consequences of the reports of this commission for Iran in the light of examining similar commissions’ activities? The hypothesis of the authors is that the universal jurisdiction of some mainly European courts to prosecute serious human rights violators may be activated.