[In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To His Eminence Imam Khomeini, the Great Leader of the Islamic Revolution- may his benign existence endure,
With greetings, Pursuant to Your Eminence's directive dated Bahman 23,1367 AHS, special meeting of the heads of the three branches of the government was held on Bahman 24,1367 AHS attended by members of the Supreme Judicial Council. In the course of three hours of discussion and exchange of views, the division of judicial duties among the present four members of the Council was approved by majority vote (five out of eight) in the following order:
1. The scope of responsibility of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court «1» is as follows: All affairs related to the branches of the Supreme Court, High Court of Qum, public prosecutor's offices, Revolutionary Courts, disciplinary court of judges, Inspector General's Office, Judicial Police, Prisoners and Security-Rehabilitat Measures Organization and eliminating their judicial and administrative problems.
2. The scope of responsibility of the Prosecutor General «2» is as follows: All affairs related to the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court, prosecutor's offices, public courts (penal and legal 1 and 2), prosecutor's office and disciplinary court of judges (except the part related to the Revolutionary Court) and eliminating their judicial and administrative problems.
3. The scope of responsibility of His Eminence Mr. Muqtada'i is as follows: Prosecutor's offices and military courts, notary public office and official journal.
4. The scope of responsibility of His Eminence Mr. Bujnourdi is as follows: administrative justice court, special civil courts and college of judicial sciences.
5. The scope of responsibility of the Minister of Justice is as follows: All affairs related to the implementation of justice and legal medicine.
6. The scope of responsibility of the council is as follows: budget allocation, endeavor to remove deficiencies in the housing of judges and workers, performance of common activities such as holding seminars and establishing contact with the Majlis and the executive branch of the government and determining the lawyers of the Guardian Council, determining the Judiciary's representative in the Supervisory Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting with the recommendation of the Minister of Justice.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is the Chairman of the Council, and responsible for determining the time of meetings, the number of meetings and supervision over the council's affairs and members.
It is worthy to mention that the meeting as agreed upon expressed the belief that the proposal for the concentration of responsibilities in the sense that one of the members of the Supreme Judicial Council has to take charge of all the judicial activities and the others to have supervisory function, is better and more important than the proposal for the division of responsibilities among the members. May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Sincerely,
Sayyid `Ali Khamene'i
Bahman 26,1367 AHS]
In His Most Exalted Name
His Eminence Hujjat al-Islam Khamene'i- may his graces last,
I thank you for your efforts. The proposal agreed upon by the gentlemen is contrary to the Constitution. I agree with the approved proposal in that meeting by the honorable Supreme Judicial Council. It is clear that division of labor is not only related with this period. In the future periods, the members of the Supreme Judicial Council of each period have to decide. I wish for the success of the gentlemen in implementing the law of God.
May God's peace and mercy be upon you.