Decree [The directive to establish the "Office of Enjoinment of Good and Prohibition of Evil"]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The Islamic Revolution Council, in accordance with this letter, is commissioned to establish an office named," Enjoinment of Good and Prohibition of Evil" at the capital; and its branches should extend to all parts of the country; and this office is independent and works alongside the Islamic revolutionary government and supervises the performance of the government and government offices and all strata of the people. And the government of the Islamic Revolution is commissioned to implement the affairs issued by this office and this office is commissioned to prevent unlawful acts in any form that it may be and to execute the religious penalties under the supervision of the religious magistrate or his appointee; and no person of the members of the government and the disciplinary forces have the right to inconvenience the administrators in charge of this office. And in the execution of the verdict and the divine limits there is no exception even if, God forbid, the Leader of the Revolution or head of government commits an offence that is within the religious decrees, the verdict against him must be executed.