People in every society are entitled to have certain rights and freedoms according to their social developments and changes and within the framework of their culture and traiditons; one of these rights is the right of privacy that has a close relationship with the issue of human dignity. The current research has sought to study various issues regarding the privacy via an analytic and documentary method and finally reached the result that there is no unique definition and notion of privacy and this is because of the differences of cultural, political and social visions of the societies. Iranian laws including constitution and other legal codes have alluded to certain important points as regards this right but one needs to mention that the legislator has not discussed all extensions of privacy in criminal code of 2013 and also in those parts where some issues have been raised as to this right sufficient criminal support has not been offered and from this point of view this code is in conflict with the relevant legal codes of this right in the international documents as in international documents and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this right has been clearly mentioned. Generally speaking, in the laws of Islamic Republic of Iran no sufficient space has been allocated for the support of the right of privacy and individual freedoms and despite numerous similarities between Iranian laws and international documents there are still major differences as regards the issue of body inspection and the corresponding international legal codes.
