International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 4 8 2015 August 2 Comparative Study of Legitimate Defense in the New Iranian Criminal Law and the Laws of France and UK 96 104 EN H. Saleem 1 Department of Management Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Islamabad, PAKISTAN Khan M.A. 2 Alireza Miremadi 1 Sharif University of Technology, International Campus, IRAN EtemadolesllamiBakhtiyari Ali 2 Arash Dorvash 3 Mohammad Aghania 1 Department of management Limkokwing University, Limkokwing Cyberjaya, Malaysia Peyman Attariani 2 Babak Afshar 3 Behnaz Torabi 4 Mohammad Aghaei 1 Department of Business Management, Branch, Tarbiat Moddares University (TMU), Tehran, IRAN Abdolmaleki Sobhan 2 Institute for Management and Planning Studies, IMPS, Tehran, IRAN Amin Asadollahi 3 Department of Business Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN MahinEslami Shahrbabaki 1 Psychiatry Department, Shahid Beheshti hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Hassan Ziaaddini 2 Institue of Neuropharmachology, Psychiatry Department, Shahid Beheshti hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Saeedi Hamed 3 Neurology Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Khorasani Farshid 4 Neuroscience Research Center, Institue of Neuropharmachology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Moghaddam Pourhassan 1 Khorasgan branch, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan, IRAN Mahmud 2 LotfiAhmad Reza 3 Yaghoubi Yaghoub 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khomeinishahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr, Isfahan, IRAN Karimian Majid 2 Department of Engineering, Tiran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tiran, IRAN Kamran Amini 3 Shah RajeshKumar 1 Deptt. of Zoology, D.H.S.K. College, Dibrugarh, Assam, INDIA Das Loveleena 2 Deptt. of Life Sciences, Dibrugarh University, Assam, INDIA Bakhtyarabaslo 1 Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Faculty of Law, Tehran, IRAN Leila Noroozi 2 MohammadAli Abdolv 1 Department of Business Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University (I.A.U), Tehran, IRAN MohammadJavad Taghipourian 2 HarishM.A. Nayaka 1 Department of Sugar Technology, Sir. M. Visvesvaraya Post Graduate Centre, University of Mysore, Mandya, 571 402, Karnataka, INDIA Chandrakanth Vinutha 2 Department of Biochemistry, Adichunchanagiri Biotechnology and Cancer Research Institute, Balagangadharanatha Nagara, 571 448, Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya, Karnataka, INDIA M.S.Lingaiah Prabhu 3 Shivalingaiah Sudarshan 4 Parikh KinjalV. 1 Division of Marine Biology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara-390002, Gujarat, INDIA D. ShahPinal 2 Pandya Khushali M. 3 Mankodi PradeepC. 4 Arezoo Momenian 1 Faculty of Art and Architecture, University of Zabol, IRAN Meysam Zekavat 2 Zaheri Fahimeh 1 Department of Management, Hormozgan University, IRAN Barkhordary Shokat 2 Department of Managementand Accounting,Sistan and Baluchestan University, IRAN Abbasali Abounoori 1 Department of Economic Science, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, IRAN Shafiee Mona 2 Shahrzad Motevasel 3 Sara Ahmed 1 Foundation University Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN Naeem Ullah 2 Alimardany Armin 1 Graduated from Criminal Law and Criminology, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, IRAN Leila RasoulyAstany 2 > Research Article 2014 1 16 2015 August 2 As one of the instances of justified crime factors, legitimate defense is one of the ways in which the legislator has explicitly authorized necessary action and has removed the adjective Penal from that. As in other legal institutions and in parallel with preservation of individuals’ rights and freedoms as well as public discipline, legitimate defense is subject to fulfillment of several conditions. Some of these conditions have been decided on the strength of the clear text of law and some other may be inferred from the contents of general rules and principles of penal regulations. Efforts have been made in this research to compare legitimate defense, which is one of the most important instances of justified factors, in three countries, namely Iran, France and UK. Except for the general concepts to which we referred at the beginning of the paper, defense-related subjects are divided into four subtitles including the conditions governing aggression, the conditions governing defense, subject of defense and mistake in defense. Each of these subtitles are separately discussed for each of the three countries so that their similarities and differences may become clear and an appropriate solution can be input in their laws in cases where there is a deficiency. This is in turn one of the advantages of comparative study and one of the objectives of this research as well. Copyright@ International Science Community Association