Supreme Leader of Iran

Iran nuclear framework deal How did Iran come to be? Iran is known officially as The Islamic republic of Iran. Is one of the world’s oldest civilisation dated between 3800 to 3200 BC. Home to 78 million people Iran has the second largest population in Middle East after Egypt. Comprised of multiple ethnic and religious groups and has Farsi as its official language. As of 2015 Iran is under a distinctive political system feeding back to 1979 constitution which blends religion and democracy with a…

was a weak leader and as a result of allowing foreign nations to interfere in Iran he sparked tensions within the political leadership of Iran. Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh was one of the Shah’s fiercest critics and in an effort to remove Britain’s involvement in Iran he nationalized the Iran’s oil industry. Consequently, the United States and Britain led a coup with the assistance of Iran’s Shia clerical leadership and military…

Macro Country Analysis in Iran I. Executive Summary: II. Introduction III. Political Risk: Political/social unrest and instability: Earlier, Iran was under the rule of Shah. In 1979, Iran declared itself as the theocratic republic under the Ayatollah Khomeini’s guidance and was then named as the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1979, Islamic students captured 52 American students and held them hostage with the demand that they return Shan to Iran. This situation created…

state and supported terrorism in the nation. The Safavids and Qajars were the two most important dynasties in Iran. The Safavids dynasty made Shia Islam the official religion and Qajar dynasty gave Muslim the political power. In 1906, the Qajars accepted a constitution, developed a parliament that protected minority rights, but the Shah disapproved. The Shah was the current ruler of Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty. In 1951, Mohammed Mosaddegh became the Prime Minister but fled the country in…

two bodies are under a joint general command. All leading army and Revolutionary Guard commanders are appointed by the Supreme Leader and are answerable only to him. Head of Judiciary: The Iranian judiciary has never been independent of political influence. Until early last century it was controlled by the clergy. The system was later secularized, but after the revolution the Supreme Court revoked all previous laws that were deemed un-Islamic. New laws based on Sharia - law derived from Islamic…

one of the most influential factions in Iranian politics. Since the inception of Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the hardliners have successfully expanded their power in the non-elected bodies of the Iranian regime, headed by the ideological leader of their movement, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. However, the Iranians have not had nearly as much luck in obtaining control of the elected bodies in Iran. Since the Revolution, the hardliners have had difficulty in gaining control the presidency as…

China, Iran, and the United States all have very different ways of selecting candidates for their highest respective offices. In this case study, I will examine the systems with which these countries select their leaders. In order to fully understand the election process of a country, one must first grasp the basic power organizations of that country in order to put it into context. Thus, I will first lay out the basic structures of unfamiliar countries before proceeding to process trace the…

Iran's nuclear program was declared peaceful and international sanctions against Iran were lifted. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement between Iran, the US, and six other world powers, was and is the subject of what is currently America's most divisive foreign policy debate. Some see Iran as a threat to America’s dominance over the Middle East, while others see decades of ineffectual enmity with Iran and believe that compromise and cooperation will serve US interests. Some see a…

Eventually, the students agreed to let the hostages go on January 19, 1981 if Iran gained 8 billion dollars in its own frozen assets and the embargo was removed. They were not released until January 20, President Ronald Reagan's inauguration day. Some people believe that Iran waited to release the hostages as a punishment to Jimmy Carter for his support of the Shah, and others believe in the October Surprise Conspiracy Theory. An October Surprise is a political incident that is arranged before…

Russia can be seen with an abundance of Communist tendencies, especially in the days of the Cold War and Joseph Stalin. Communism is often denoted by authoritarian leaders and cruelty, both of which Russia had during this time period of the USSR. The Cold War was a reaction by the United States to the spread of Communism as based in Russia or the Soviet Union, as it was known in those times. Beginning around 1947 and spanning to the early 1990’s, the Cold War was not so much as a war, but more…