Telecommunicative Crimes

Due to the growing development of technology in recent times, great changes have occurred in man’s life, having positive and negative aspects; among the most important achievements is the telecommunicative progress which has brought human from telegraph and first telephones to internet phones. Such progress has caused commitment of many crimes, including communicative ones, which can be divided into pure telecommunicative and telecommunication-related crimes; each of these classes includes a wide spectrum of crimes. The first category constitutes of crimes committed with telecommunicative tools and crimes against telecommunicative systems; while the latter consists traditional crimes which are transformed by telecommunicative systems. In the Iranian legal system, despite the attempts to cover the instances of such crimes, a lot of partial and limited regulations and flawed criminalization have been made; a fact that necessitates a change in legislator’s approach and carrying out structural amendments in this field.