Analyzing Gambling Crime in Iran's Law and Jurisprudence

Although many debates have been conducted over some special features of gambling in Islamic jurisprudence sources, there are few researches about the roots and impacts of its criminalization. In spite of the fact that Iranian criminal policy from 1928 to 1999 was subject to fluctuation over its criminalization, it has been neglected by the literatures. Besides that, even though the Iranian legislative have been insisting on criminalizing these commitments–before and after Islamic revolution-, yet the crime havent been defined certainly by Iranian criminal law, something that undoubtedly break the principle of legality. Then in that base, finding an exact legal definition and afterwards analyzing the three essential elements of gambling as a crime in Iran –even in short terms- is necessary.