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In its resolution S35/1, on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Human Rights Council on 24 November 2022 decided to establish an independent international fact-finding mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran for a period of one year. On 4 April 2024, the Council voted to extend the Fact-Finding Mission’s mandate for an additional year through ...
Government Name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Constitution: Adopted: 1999; Replaced the 1961 version which was the longest serving constitution in Venezuelan history. It was also the first constitution approved by popular referendum in the country's history. Major changes to the government's structure and responsibilities are explained as ...
Iran - Politics, Religion, Society: 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. At the head of both the state and oversight institutions is a ranking cleric known as the rahbar, or leader ...
Apr 9, 2019 · Venezuela has had both the unicameral and bicameral systems. The current National Assembly was formed after the elections December 6, 2015, and it is a unicameral federal legislature. The Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) won parliamentary and legislative elections, defeating the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and hence controls the ...
t. e. 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) has been described (by Juan José Linz in 2000) as combining "the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism ...
Oct 7, 2020 · A civil-forfeiture complaint filed in a district court in Washington, DC, suggests that the IRGC is behind the fuel shipments to Venezuela, citing the corporate records of four additional Liberian-flagged tankers from Iran that were stopped from arriving in Venezuela. 52 “Warrant and Complaint Seek Seizure of All Iranian Gasoil Aboard Four ...
Iran’s leadership is kept in power by its praetorian guard, the Sepāh e Pāsdārān e Enqelāb e Eslāmi, or Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC has both domestic and external missions. Its domestic security wing, the Basij, and expeditionary arm, the Qods Force, work in tandem with Iran’s other significant intelligence ...
