COVID-۱۹ Pandemic in Iran: A Constitutional Perspective

Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran declared a ۱۴ days lockdown of the country as part of themeasures to address the Covid-۱۹ pandemic. This raised Constitutional and legal interest. The country’s legal systemis integral to how its citizens look upon issues that concern the country in general and their individual lives inparticular. However, the structure of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is flawless, but, it is possible toincrease or decrease it ۱ in some areas such as protection of health work which the state was supposed to adopt forpublic interest when putting restrictions on human rights of members of society have to be based on duly enacted lawof general application, hence called, ‘the principle of legality’. The study employed on doctrinal method. Therefore itrelied on both primary and secondary sources. The primary source includes Iran Constitution, the InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Cairo Declarationon Human Rights in Islam. On the other hands, secondary sources are textbooks among others.

Keywords:

Covid۱۹ , Constitutional Perspective , Iran