Protests in Tehran Iran
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"Khomeini left the seeds for this conflict buried in the Iranian constitution. There is a president and there is a parliament, the Majlis, both subject to popular vote. The president is the supposed head of government. But there is also an Assembly of Experts composed of dozens of the leading Shi’ite ayatollahs and clerics in Iran, and this group appoints themselves from among Iran’s major Islamic schools. This body elects the Supreme Jurisprudent, the most revered of all religious figures in Iran, a successor to Ayatollah Khomeini and in that sense the embodiment of the continuing revolution of 1979.
The Supreme Jurisprudent has direct constitutional control of the military, of the domestic paramilitary (the Revolutionary Guards), the police, and the judiciary. Once selected by the Assembly of Experts, he manages this organization, plus two other constitutional bodies. One is the Guardians Council, which must approve all legislation that emerges from the Majlis, and which vets and approves all candidates running for public office. The second is the Expediency Council, which arbitrates any legislative disputes that emerge in the Majlis.
In short, power resides with religious clerics and their bureaucrats, none of whom is popularly voted into office. This is the fundamental crisis, or flaw, in the Iranian constitution, which desperately seeks legitimacy through public voting, but which time and again has shown itself willing to overthrow the popular vote if any real threat emerges to theocratic rule. "
- how did they get in power?
another pussyfooter hereGeorgesII - You're kidding, right?TheBlueOne
- Georgesll, sometimes you gotta get off that high horse of yours...TheBlueOne
- ..the young Iranians aren't blaming the US anymore, why are you?TheBlueOne
- I bet in 50 years the remaining young irakis won't blame the US too, not because they've forgiven them but becauseGeorgesII
- an entire generation would have been lost , doesn't mean they forgot, btw who said they don't blame you anymore? cnnGeorgesII
- Personally, I still haven't forgiven Italy for siding with the Nazis in WWIIukit
- Once again, you misread history as it happens in front of your eyes, GeorgesllTheBlueOne
- how did they get in power?