Authors

1 PhD student of International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Public and International Law Department, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Following the start of the internal war in Syria and its expansion to Iraq, the Iranian government sent its military advisers to these countries on invitation of the Iraqi and Syrian governments. Therefore, their presence was in accordance with the consent and invitation of the host government and in accordance with international law. The main issue in this article is the immunity of Iran's military advisers to the courts of host governments. According to the Convention on special missions that nowadays accepted as international customary, international law commission draft about Immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction and the existence of numerous military contracts, in which refer to the military advisers immunity (which are part of the armed forces), Iran's military advisers should be immune from the Iraqi and Syrian courts.

Keywords

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