TEHRAN - A conference commemorating Iran’s Judiciary Week opened in Tehran on Saturday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, and a number of other high-ranking officials attended the inauguration ceremony.
Judiciary Week commemorates the anniversary of the martyrdom of Judiciary chief Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti and 72 members of the Islamic Republic Party, who were killed in the bombing of the party headquarters on June 28, 1981. Ayatollah Beheshti had also been the leader of the party at the time.
The terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization claimed responsibility for the attack.
The MKO carried out the bombing because Ayatollah Beheshti and the Islamic Republic Party had prepared the ground for the impeachment of the MKO-supported president Abol-Hassan Bani-Sadr the week before.
In a speech delivered at the conference, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised the role of the Judiciary, saying, “The Judiciary system in our country is one of the most important organizations, such that this system may even have a higher status than that of the executive and legislative powers.”
He added, “The Judiciary power guarantees the implementation of the law, security, and justice in the country. Even if thousands of useful laws are written… we need an adept and adroit judicial system to see that justice (is served) in the country.”
The president also thanked Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi for the role he has played in the Judiciary system and stated that most of the major achievements of the Judiciary have been realized during his tenure as Judiciary chief