TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani called on all Islamic states to study the raison d'être and philosophy behind Islamic laws and start a contrastive analysis of each other's judicial systems in an effort to further expand ties.

""It is proper that Islamic states place a contrastive analysis of each other's judicial systems on their agenda in a move to expand and develop their ties,"" Ayatollah Larijani said in a meeting with Bahraini Parliament Speaker Khalifa Bin Ahmad al-Dhahrani here in Tehran on Saturday.
He also asked Muslim states to further study philosophy and the spirit of Islamic laws.
Regarding Iran-Bahrain ties, the Iranian judiciary chief called for further expansion of Tehran-Manama political, cultural and judicial ties given the two countries' ample commonalities.
He pointed to an earlier proposal for the endorsement of an agreement on judicial cooperation between Iran and Bahrain, and said that the agreement could serve as a good opening for expanding judicial and legal relations between the two countries.
Ayatollah Larijani further asked the two countries' legislative bodies to rapidly approve the agreement bill on Iran-Bahrain judicial cooperation.
Al-Dhahrani, for his part, called for expansion of bilateral relations in all fields, and expressed the hope that his meetings with Iranian officials would pave the way for the bolstering of judicial and legal ties between the two countries.
The Bahraini speaker vowed to pursue the case with the endorsement of the two countries' judicial cooperation agreement once he returns home.