President Hails Judiciary for Guarantee Security

Date: 28 June 2016 - 22:23

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday hailed the judiciary in guaranteeing security in Iran in a region which is often riven by violence.
"The reason why everyone can calmly go to sleep at night in Iran is the presence of a capable judiciary,” Rouhani told a ceremony attended by the heads of the other two branches of power in Iran.
The president also called on the Iranian judiciary to firmly deal with those involved in attacking diplomatic perimeters in the country.
Addressing a ceremony that marked the beginning of the Judiciary Week in Iran, President Rouhani emphasized the importance of restoring international trust by trying those taking the law into their own hands.
"Every country is responsible for the security of its foreign embassies,” Rouhani said.
"People want to know how a bunch of rogue individuals who attacked a foreign embassy in breach of the law and against the country’s public security... will be dealt with by the judiciary,” he said.
The president called for "transparency” in the upcoming trial of 48 suspects who stormed Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in January, an attack that prompted the kingdom to cut ties with Tehran and left relations between the regional powers badly frayed.
The trial of the 48 suspects in the case is due next week, with Rouhani saying transparent proceedings would show that Iran cares for "securing embassies and will increase international trust in our country.”
"Today we need a growth in investment for economic prosperity and employment of our youth. We must give assurance to all entrepreneurs and investors that their capital is safe and encourage them to invest,” he added.
The embassy attack was condemned by Iran’s top authorities, including Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
"Like the British embassy attack before it, this was against the country (Iran) and Islam, and I didn’t like it,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in January, referring to a mob ransacking Britain’s embassy in Tehran in 2011.
The raids occurred when demonstrations were held in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad — both of which were vacant at the time — to protest Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
Some elements among the protesters mounted the walls of the consulate in Mashhad while incendiary devices were hurled at the embassy in Tehran.
Saudi Arabia pounced on the occasion to cut its diplomatic ties with Iran as it tried to divert attention from the execution of Sheikh Nimr amid an international outcry.
Another contentious issue between the two countries is the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of last year’s deadly crush of pilgrims that killed at least 2,426 people, according to a count by The Associated Press. Tehran has said 464 of the dead were Iranian.
Earlier in June, Iran said it would not facilitate sending pilgrims to the Hajj year, because the kingdom had failed to provide adequate security.