The government has settled the matter by signing off with Sheikh Hossein Ali Nayyeri, effectively putting an end to the country's only independent civil legal institution.

The first chamber of the Administrative Court of Judges, acting as the Guardian Council of the Bar Association, unexpectedly changed the composition of the newly elected board of directors of the Tehran Bar Association by issuing a definitive ruling.

The five members elected to the board of the Tehran Bar Association were removed from their positions, and other members were appointed as the new main and alternate members. (Document No. 1 - Ruling of the First Chamber of the Administrative Court of Judges)

Following the issuance of this ruling, the Supervisory Board of the Tehran Bar Association, as the implementer and addressee of the ruling, faced legal ambiguity.

In a purely legal inquiry to resolve the ambiguity and brevity of the issued ruling, which bore the signature of the first chamber of the Administrative Court of Judges, and to seek legal guidance and a glimmer of hope for justice from Sheikh Hossein Ali Nayyeri, the head of the first chamber and also the president of the Administrative Court of Judges, the Supervisory Board sought legal assistance. However, Nayyeri’s signature as the head of the chamber was missing from the ruling. (Document No. 2 - Letter from the Supervisory Board of the Bar Association Elections)

Sheikh Hossein Ali Nayyeri’s response was as decisive and harsh as the judgments of the revolutionary courts of the 1980s.

Nayyeri did not tolerate any challenge to the ruling issued under his chairmanship and approved it without sufficient legal reasoning, accusing the Supervisory Board of the Elections of making excuses to enforce a regulation deemed equivalent to law! (Document No. 3 - Letter from Nayyeri, President of the Administrative Court of Judges, to the Bar Association)

Thus, with the recent acceptance and compliance of the Bar Associations with the executive regulations approved by the head of the judiciary, which were deemed equivalent to law, the file on the independence of the last remaining civil institution has been closed, and that’s it...

There are also many regulations that surpass the law, which no one can oppose, and the country’s parliament is either asleep or lacks the courage to confront them. Abdollah Abdi has previously addressed these in various notes.