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The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( Persian: نظام جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized : Nezâm-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân ), known simply as Nezam ( Persian: نظام, romanized : Nezâm, lit. 'the system'), [1] is the ruling state and current political system in Iran, in power since the Iranian Revolution and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1...
4 days ago · Iran's acting FM meets President Assad of Syria. Iran acting FM meets heads of Palestine resistance groups in Syria. Swedish envoy summoned to Iran Foreign Ministry.
The IRGC is Iran's main organisation for maintaining internal security, and is now a major military, political and economic force in the country, with more than 150,000 personnel.
Jun 27, 2024 · Iran's critics are quick to point out the country's elections are not free or fair, and the unelected supreme leader holds the most power. Yet the president is the highest-elected official and can ...
Jun 29, 2024 · A head of the first round of Iran’s presidential election on June 28th, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, said that any vote was a vote for his Islamic Republic. By that ...
5 days ago · Iran is a unitary Islamic republic with one legislative house. The country’s 1979 constitution put into place a mixed system of government, in which the executive, parliament, and judiciary are overseen by several bodies dominated by the clergy.
Jun 26, 2024 · Pezeshkian, 69, served as vice president of Iran’s parliament from 2016 to 2020, strongly supported the 2015 nuclear deal and challenged the official government narrative about the 2022 death of ...
4 days ago · Since 1979 it has become known for its unique brand of Islamic republic. Although the system of government was intended as a parliamentary democracy, persistent instability both at home and abroad have steered its slide into a more theocratic authoritarianism.
Jun 26, 2024 · Iran’s system of government is not quite a democracy, nor a theocracy. Founding Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini developed its animating doctrine, known as guardianship of the jurist, in the...
Sep 22, 2022 · The antigovernment protests that have erupted in cities across Iran in response to a young woman’s death in the custody of the country’s morality police have struck a national nerve.
