On May 1, Mohammad-Javad Larijani - head of the human rights council in Iran's judiciary - participated in a conference where he offered his analysis regarding Iranian penal laws, which he claims are being attacked and criticized by international human rights organizations.

He said that retaliation, the cutting off of hands and feet, the removal of a "defendant's" eye, and even stoning were a very real part of Iranian judicial law:

The problem is that these Westerners go on and on about their own laws. The interpretation of laws in Iran is based on Islam and our constitution. We have made concessions to some of the international demands, but we have our own laws and we will carry them out as interpreted.

Speaking out against the Western rule of law with regards to Iran, Larijani added:

Westerners make a mockery of the partnership between a man and a woman as a family unit by saying that two men or two women, homosexuals, can live together as life partners; so based on this analysis, in the near future a human being will be also allowed to marry a cat.