Politics Iran is an Islamic republic with a presidential system based on Shiite Islam. A council of experts, made up of theologians elected for eight years, elects the leader of the Islamic Revolution for life.[…]

According to paradisdachat, Iran is an Islamic Republic. The Constitution approved by referendum on 2 December 1979 establishes the subordination of the state to the leadership of the Shiite clergy. At the top of the[…]

HISTORY: FROM THE ARAB CONQUEST TO THE ATTEMPT AT AN ENGLISH PROTECTORATE The Arab conquest (634-651) inserted Iran into the Muslim empire that was being created in the first years after Muhammad’s death, spreading Islam[…]

Starting in 1989, with the death of Imām Khomeini and the election of the new President of the Republic, Hashemi Alī Akbar Rafsanjani, relations with foreign countries seemed to have significantly improved. Rafsanjani, with his[…]

CULTURE According to animalerts, the cultural landscape that today’s Iran represents and expresses derives largely from the Persian civilization, which was born and developed here. In fact, the bond that still binds the Iranians to[…]

Yearbook 1998 Iran. The year was marked by a dramatic power struggle between the country’s conservative and liberal camps. In April, one of Liberal President Mohammad Khatami’s closest ally was arrested, Tehran’s popular mayor Gholamhossain[…]