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- <text id=93CT0664>
- <title>
- Iran--Government
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Iran
- Government</hdr><body>
- <list>
- <l>Names:</l>
- <l> conventional long form: Islamic Republic of Iran</l>
- <l> conventional short form: Iran</l>
- <l> local long form: Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran</l>
- <l> local short form: Iran</l>
- </list>
- <p>Digraph: IR
- </p>
- <p>Type: theocratic republic
- </p>
- <p>Capital: Tehran
- </p>
- <p>Administrative divisions: 24 provinces (ostanha, singular - ostan);
- Azarbayjan-e Bakhtari, Azarbayjan-e Khavari, Bakhtaran, Bushehr,
- Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Hamadan, Hormozgan,
- Ilam, Kerman, Khorasan, Khuzestan, Kohkiluyeh va Buyer Ahmadi,
- Kordestan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, Semnan, Sistan va
- Baluchestan, Tehran, Yazd, Zanjan
- </p>
- <p>Independence: 1 April 1979 (Islamic Republic of Iran proclaimed)
- </p>
- <p>Constitution: 2-3 December 1979; revised 1989 to expand powers of
- the presidency and eliminate the prime ministership
- </p>
- <p>Legal system: the Constitution codifies Islamic principles of
- government
- </p>
- <p>National holiday: Islamic Republic Day, 1 April (1979)
- </p>
- <p>Political parties and leaders: there are at least 18 licensed
- parties; the three most important are - Tehran Militant Clergy
- Association, Mohammad Reza MAHDAVI-KANI; Militant Clerics
- Association, Mehdi MAHDAVI-KARUBI and Mohammad Asqar MUSAVI-KHOINIHA;
- Fedaiyin Islam Organization, Sadeq KHALKHALI
- </p>
- <p>Other political or pressure groups: groups that generally support
- the Islamic Republic include Hizballah, Hojjatiyeh Society, Mojahedin
- of the Islamic Revolution, Muslim Students Following the Line of the
- Imam; armed political groups that have been almost completely
- repressed by the government include Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization
- (MEK), People's Fedayeen, Kurdish Democratic Party; the Society for
- the Defense of Freedom
- </p>
- <p>Suffrage: 15 years of age; universal
- </p>
- <p>Elections:
- </p>
- <p> President: last held July 1989 (next to be held 11 June 1993);
- results - Ali Akbar HASHEMI-RAFSANJANI was elected with only token
- opposition
- </p>
- <p> Islamic Consultative Assembly: last held 8 April 1992 (next to be
- held April 1996); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (270
- seats total) number of seats by party NA
- </p>
- <p>Executive branch: supreme leader (velay-t-e faqih), president,
- Council of Ministers
- </p>
- <p>Legislative branch: unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly
- (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami)
- </p>
- <p>Judicial branch: Supreme Court
- </p>
- <p>Leaders:
- </p>
- <p> Supreme Leader and functional Chief of State: Leader of the
- Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali HOSEINI-KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989)
- </p>
- <p> Head of Government: President Ali Akbar HASHEMI-RAFSANJANI (since
- 3 August 1989)
- </p>
- <p>Member of: CCC, CP, ESCAP, ECO, FAO, G-19, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD,
- ICAO, ICC, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT,
- INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, LORCS, NAM, OIC, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,
- UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Diplomatic representation in US:</l>
- <l> chief of mission: Iran has an Interests Section in the
- Pakistani Embassy in Washington, DC</l>
- <l> chancery: Iranian Interests Section, 2209 Wisconsin Ave. NW,
- Washington, DC 20007</l>
- <l> telephone: (202) 965-4990</l>
- </list>
- <p>US diplomatic representation: protecting power in Iran is
- Switzerland
- </p>
- <p>Flag: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red;
- the national emblem (a stylized representation of the word Allah) in
- red is centered in the white band; Allah Alkbar (God is Great) in
- white Arabic script is repeated 11 times along the bottom edge of the
- green band and 11 times along the top edge of the red band
- </p></body></article></text>
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