COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Constitutional Perspective

Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran declared a 14 days lockdown of the country as part of the measures to address the Covid-19 pandemic. This raised Constitutional and legal interest. The country’s legal system is integral to how its citizens look upon issues that concern the country in general and their individual lives in particular. However, the structure of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is flawless, but, it is possible to increase or decrease it in some areas such as protection of health work which the state was supposed to adopt for public interest when putting restrictions on human rights of members of society have to be based on duly enacted law of general application, hence called, ‘the principle of legality’. The study employed on doctrinal method. Therefore it relied on both primary and secondary sources. The primary source includes Iran Constitution, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam. On the other hands, secondary sources are textbooks among others.