Hello everybody,
this chapter politic and religion should require much more time than the few minutes that I can write from an internet point, but I will attempt anyway. I write this topic also because now we are in Dubai, and I can write without the fear of the cyber-police...
From where or when should I begin? from the Pahvlavi dynasty and the story of Reza Shah? From the coup d'etat organized by the CIA and the British M16 against Mossadegh in 1953? Or from the Islamic revolution leaded by Khomeini in 1979?
I probably know the answer, but it would request too much time. Despite of that I will start from when I got not so friendly controlled from 9 members of the Islamic secret police, actually it was only two months ago...
In the Iranian political system everything is double, making the Islamic Republic of Iran a strange democracy. Iranian people actually elect their president (now is the famous Ahmadinejad) and even a parliament. The president forms a government and the parliament can makes laws. Until here it seems normal. The problem is that in Iran there is the double of all of this. And the double of politic is unfortunately religion.
The supreme leader (at the beginning was Kohmeini itself, from his death in 1989 on, Khamenei) is the highest religious authority of the country and has a lot of political power too. He is the head of a council of 12 people (directly or indirectly chosen by himself...) who can, among many others things, stop and veto every law made from the parliament and decide who is "suitable" to be candidate to the elections. If they do not like someone, maybe because he or she is too progressive or not maybe islamic enough, they have the power to stop their candidature both of the presidential election and even to that of the parliaments member. The source of the Iranian constitution is the Koran and its following interpretations, and it is given. That is, it cannot be changed, there are no "legal" ways to change the constitution if the supreme leader does not do want so.
As I said, everything is double: if the government control the police and the army, the Supreme leader control the islamic police (sepah) and the special troops (pasdaran). Islamic fanatic volounteers (basiji) do the dirty jobs, as infiltrating demonstrations, kidnapping and killing as it happened during the demonstrations after the ridiculos elections in 2009. Briefly, that time the president Ahmadinejad got about 5 milions votes and the "progressive", or at least not so conservative opponent Mousavi, about 16 milions. Well, this outcome was not comfortable enough for the clergy men, so, you know who is president now. The problem is that they did not only enormously cheated, but also killed many people (I have heard number from 76 to about 1000, I do not really know the real count) who rebelled against this obscenity.
Note of the authors:
Sorry, I started this post already a week ago, I was unable to finish it properly for real lack of time.
I post it anyway even if it is not finished and not complete. Sorry for that. Actually we are in Oman since one week already. I hope to find a quite place and time to post everything properly. .
this chapter politic and religion should require much more time than the few minutes that I can write from an internet point, but I will attempt anyway. I write this topic also because now we are in Dubai, and I can write without the fear of the cyber-police...
From where or when should I begin? from the Pahvlavi dynasty and the story of Reza Shah? From the coup d'etat organized by the CIA and the British M16 against Mossadegh in 1953? Or from the Islamic revolution leaded by Khomeini in 1979?
I probably know the answer, but it would request too much time. Despite of that I will start from when I got not so friendly controlled from 9 members of the Islamic secret police, actually it was only two months ago...
In the Iranian political system everything is double, making the Islamic Republic of Iran a strange democracy. Iranian people actually elect their president (now is the famous Ahmadinejad) and even a parliament. The president forms a government and the parliament can makes laws. Until here it seems normal. The problem is that in Iran there is the double of all of this. And the double of politic is unfortunately religion.
The supreme leader (at the beginning was Kohmeini itself, from his death in 1989 on, Khamenei) is the highest religious authority of the country and has a lot of political power too. He is the head of a council of 12 people (directly or indirectly chosen by himself...) who can, among many others things, stop and veto every law made from the parliament and decide who is "suitable" to be candidate to the elections. If they do not like someone, maybe because he or she is too progressive or not maybe islamic enough, they have the power to stop their candidature both of the presidential election and even to that of the parliaments member. The source of the Iranian constitution is the Koran and its following interpretations, and it is given. That is, it cannot be changed, there are no "legal" ways to change the constitution if the supreme leader does not do want so.
As I said, everything is double: if the government control the police and the army, the Supreme leader control the islamic police (sepah) and the special troops (pasdaran). Islamic fanatic volounteers (basiji) do the dirty jobs, as infiltrating demonstrations, kidnapping and killing as it happened during the demonstrations after the ridiculos elections in 2009. Briefly, that time the president Ahmadinejad got about 5 milions votes and the "progressive", or at least not so conservative opponent Mousavi, about 16 milions. Well, this outcome was not comfortable enough for the clergy men, so, you know who is president now. The problem is that they did not only enormously cheated, but also killed many people (I have heard number from 76 to about 1000, I do not really know the real count) who rebelled against this obscenity.
Note of the authors:
Sorry, I started this post already a week ago, I was unable to finish it properly for real lack of time.
I post it anyway even if it is not finished and not complete. Sorry for that. Actually we are in Oman since one week already. I hope to find a quite place and time to post everything properly. .
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