TEHRAN Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said here on Monday that improving and developing judicial system is among the main goals of the Judiciary. Addressing the country's judicial officials, he said that development of Judiciary is not merely confined to removal of problems and deficiencies but it also entails a dramatic change in the culture prevailing in the judicial system.

``In order to attain this goal, it is required to make use of committed judicial experts within and outside the Judiciary,'' he said. ``We hope to fulfill our commitment per guidelines of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in an effort to attain judicial development,'' he said. This is the right of all people to get their legal cases solved quickly, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said.

Meanwhile, Director General for the Judiciary's public relations department Fotowat Nasiri Savadkouhi on Monday refuted as ``unfounded'' the German press report on dismissal of nine Iranian lawyers by the new Judiciary Head, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. Savadkouhi told IRNA that appointment or dismissal of Justice Department lawyers do not fall within jurisdiction of the Judiciary chief and the Association of Lawyers is an independent organ.

He said that probably, the German press report concerned appointment of nine senior judges to judicial posts at the Judiciary which has been reflected in such a wrong manner. He added that after appointment of Hashemi Shahroudi as the new Judiciary Chief, no judge or judicial official at the public or revolutionary courts have been dismissed from their posts. Rather there have been 11 cases of appointment at the Judiciary after appointment of Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, he noted.

The German dailies General-Anzeiger, Handelsblatt, Suddeutsche Zeitung and Berliner Morgenpost claimed on Monday that after appointment of Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as the new judiciary Jhief Cine lawyers of justice department had been fired.