Iran Political Parties

1.) They are a theocratic Islamic republic governed under the constitution of 1979. Theocracy is a form of government in which a deity is recognized. Officials are appointed not elected. Offices and bodies hold the real power in the government.  The President is Ali Khamenei. There is a parliment of Iran that is comprised of 290 members elected for a four year term. There is also a Guardian Council which is composed of 12 jurists. These jurists include 6 clerics appointed by the Supreme Leader and 6 elected by the parliament majiles from the Muslim jurists nominated by the head of the judicial system. Finally there is the expediency council which mediates disputes between the parrliment and guardian council.

2.) There are 76 parties in Iran.

3.) Two are considered major, the conservatives and the reformists.

4.) Out of the 76 parties in Iran, 64 of them are exiled.

5.) There are 6 ideological branches in which the parties are divided into, communists, Socialists and social democrats, Ethnic nationalists, Muslim- Democrats, Liberal Democrats and Secular Nationalists, and Anti islamic Nationalists.

6.) I learned about how the government was structured. I realized that they were always ruled by an elected official, but I did not know that they had legislative branches or any sort of elected officials.


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