The legal units of the executive bodies are directly responsible for establishing contracts and defending government claims.
Amin Hussein Rahimi, Minister of Justice, at the meeting of the Coordinating Council for Legal Affairs of the executive bodies:
Usually, if an action is taken in the executive body and the official or top official is considered responsible, the legal unit and the legal deputy are also automatically included among those responsible; Because they have the duty to supervise the legal actions of their executive body.
The legal and financial contracts of the institutions must be approved by the relevant legal unit, a contract can be drawn up in the development department or in another part of the organization and signed by another official, but the legal unit is obliged to supervise it and express its opinion.
If an allegation of defrauding the treasury is made, one of the people who must be held accountable and in some cases a judgment of conviction is given against him is the person in charge of the institution's legal department. The person in charge of the organization, from the minister to the head of the organization, is not allowed to refer the matter to the legal unit due to the workload, however the unit that is going to prepare the contract is obliged to receive the opinion of the legal unit, and the legal unit must emphasize this.
According to various laws and regulations, including the Seventh Development Plan Law, lawsuits by executive bodies against each other cannot be submitted directly to the judicial authorities and must first be submitted to the Presidential Legal Office.