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The politics of Iran takes place in the framework of an Islamic theocracy which was formed following the overthrow of Iran's millennia-long monarchy by the 1979 Revolution. Iran's system of government (nezam) was described by Juan José Linz in 2000 as combining "the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, officially called the Supreme Leadership Authority in Iran, is a post established by Article 5 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran in accordance with the concept of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist. [20] This post is a life tenure post ...
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran [1] [2] (Persian: قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Qanun-e Asasi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Iran) is the supreme law of Iran. It was adopted by referendum on 2 and 3 December 1979, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and went into force replacing the Constitution of 1906 . [ 5 ]
The phrase was used in connection with the Iranian government of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1987 by Olivier Roy, [1] and from the 1990s onward has been used in discussions of Iran, and occasionally of other governments. Professor Mahmood Mamdani [2] has spoken of a "constitutional theocracy" in the context of "a state–wide clerical authority in ...
Iran combines the forms of a presidential republic, with a president elected by universal suffrage, and a theocracy, with a supreme leader who is ultimately responsible for state policy, chosen for life by the elected Assembly of Experts. Candidates for both the Assembly of Experts and the presidency are vetted by the appointed Guardian Council.
[31] [32] Unlike Iran-backed Shia militias, the Sadrist Movement was more nationalist and rejected Iranian interference in Iraq. [33] [32] Subhi al-Tufayli, a Lebanese Shia cleric and former Hezbollah leader, was very critical of Iran and Hezbollah. The Tufayli faction of Hezbollah was more independent, while the Nasrallah faction was Pro-Iran.
Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., Amir Saied Iravani, made that case recently to NBC—saying that while Iran arms and funds its allies (except the Houthis), “We are not directing them. We are ...
The first Shia theocracy in the 20th century was established in Iran following the Iranian Revolution that led to the fall of the Shah of Iran. The constitutional name of Iran was established as the Islamic Republic of Iran ( Persian : جمهوری اسلامی ايران transliteration : Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān ).