From the perspective of criminal law history in Iran, whether before Islam that people resided in the vast and glorious land of Persian Empire were Unitarian, unlike some of that era’s civilizations, or after the Islam that people of this sacred land accepted Islam, the greatest divine religion, bribing and taking bribe always was considered as a viciously, evil and crime, and the violators had been faced with the most serious criminal reaction, so that, in addition to imprisonment and confiscation of property, in some cases, by the execution of venal person, the society has been cleared of his foul existence. In the ancient Iran, in many cases, the king has trailed the venal person out in public and issued the execution command, that this shows the sensitivity of kings of that era in deal with the criminal bribe phenomenon.
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