Iran's Government

Iran is a Constitutional Republic--a non-democratic Republic. Basically it is theocratic government under the constitution since 1979, as revised in 1989, when presidential powers were expanded and the prime minister eliminated. Rather than elected, offices and bodies hold the real power in government.

POWER in Iran is divided in many offices and institututions.

Leaders of Iran~

Emperor (Shah)- Mahammad Reza Pahlavi


Leader of the Revolution and acclaimed Shi' a Imam
Ahatollah Sayyed
Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini


President of the Republic- Abolhasan Bani-Sadr


Interim Presidential Commission
Mohammad Ali Rajai
Hodjatoleslam Ali Akabar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hoseyn Beheshti

Ayatollah Sayyed Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardabili

President of the Republic- Mahammad Ali Rajai

Politics and Government

Politics and Government of Iran takes place in a form of the republic with Islamist Ideology. The December 1979 constitution and its 1989 improvement, the political, economic, and social order of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Irans difficulties have included an 8 year war with Iraq, internal political struggles and unrest. and economic disorder.

Political parties in Iran
Iran is a state with normal presidential and parliamentary elections. This system is presented as a republic based on Islamist ideology. There are many opposition parties allowed but they are considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
Today, there are 223 registered political parties, associations and organizations that have been followed by rules to operate, but not as an oppostion to the system of the government

Supreme leader of Iran

The Supreme Leader -- Ayatollah Khamanei, Kahomeini's successor -- controls many levels of POWER, army, military, the police and the electronic media. He is responsible for the delineation and supervision of "the general plicies of the Islamic Republic of Iran".He was elected by a council of clerics. He was created in the constitution of the Islaamic Republic of Iran. The "Supreme" Leader is a sign of respect, however this vocabulary does not exist in the constitution. In Western media, the sitting Supreme Leader is sometimes known by the religious title The Ayatollah of Iran.

The Supreme Leader is elected by the Assembly of Experts, which are also in charge of being with The Supreme Leader, and has the power to dismiss and replace him at any time. As the name shown, the Supreme Lader is considered as the ultimate head of the Iranian plitical and government, above the Iran's president.

The President of Iran, who is elected by the public voters, is the Executive Presiden (Head of the government). The Prime Minister's office was mixed with the figurehead President's office to make the current post of president of Iran. But only certain executive powers like the commandment of the armed forces and declaration of war and peacem remains in the hands of the Supreme Leader.