This principle ( though not known to the wider public before the revolution ) was installed in the new Iranian constitution after being put to a referendum.

Bahá ' ís are neither recognized nor protected by the Iranian constitution.

Mohammad Beheshti: was an Iranian scholar, writer, jurist and one of the main architects of the constitution of the Islamic Republic in Iran.

The phrase Allahu Akbar is written on the Iranian flag, as called for by Article 18 of Iran's constitution.

Mossadegh voted against such a move, arguing that such an act was a subversion of the 1906 Iranian constitution.

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and referendum to create the Islamic Republic on March 29 and 30, the new government needed to craft a new constitution.

According to the Iranian constitution, when the President dies or is impeached, a special provisional Presidential Council temporarily rules in his place until an election can be held.

The Iranian constitution calls for the council to be composed of six Islamic faqihs ( expert in Islamic Law ), " conscious of the present needs and the issues of the day " to be selected by the Supreme Leader of Iran, and six jurists, " specializing in different areas of law, to be elected by the Majlis ( the Iranian Parliament ) from among the Muslim jurists nominated by the Head of the Judicial Power ," ( who, in turn, is also appointed by the supreme leader ).

Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (), ( October 24, 1928-June 28, 1981 ) was an Iranian scholar, writer, jurist and one of the main architects of the constitution of the Islamic Republic in Iran.

Leftist, nationalist and Islamist groups attacked his government ( often from outside Iran as they were suppressed within ) for violating the Iranian constitution, political corruption, and the political oppression by the SAVAK ( secret police ).

Candidates must pledge in writing that they are committed, in theory and in practice, to the Iranian constitution.

Despite guarantees of religious freedom for Christians in Article 13 of the Iranian constitution, it remains an offence to sell a copy of the Bible in Iran, which is practically impossible anyway, since the offices of the Iranian Bible Society were closed in 1980 and all its stocks confiscated by the State authorities.

Further, Article 19 of the Iranian constitution adds:

According to Article 175 of the Iranian constitution,

Iranian Conservatives believe that Iran's Supreme Leader has the power to make new courts if he wishes-they say that according to Iran's Constitution, the Supreme Leader has absolute power, and the constitution represents the least of the powers he is allowed to exercise.

On 28 July 1989, the constitution was amended and approved by Iranian voters in a national referendum with a 97 % yes vote.

Mousavi has on numerous occasions indicated his wish to change the constitution in order to remove the existing ban on the private ownership of television stations ( currently all Iranian television stations are state-owned ), as well as transfer the control of the law-enforcement forces to the President ( so that they represent the people, since the people directly elect the President through popular vote ) from the Supreme Leader.

He is credited with the creation of the Iranian constitution, and often wrongly credited with the rise of the Persian Constitutional Revolution which took place immediately after his death.

Both decrees were in direct violation of the Iranian constitution which stated that only the Parliament had the right to elect and dismiss Prime Ministers.

Moreover, a Constitutional Council reviews all parliamentary legislation to ensure that it conforms to the shari ’ a and the Iranian constitution.

Whereas the regular military ( artesh ) defends Iran's borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard ( pasdaran ) is intended to protect the country's Islamic system.

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 resulted in an electoral system ( an Islamic Republic with a constitution ), but the system has a limited democracy in practice.

High ground, separated by broad, undulating steppes, gives way to mountains ranging from near the Iranian and Turkish borders.

Ferdowsi, the famed Iranian poet-historian, gives a number of accounts of royal chogan tournaments in his 9th century epic, Shahnameh ( the Epic of Kings ).

This residue is reflected as i in Indic while dropping in Iranian ; it gives variously e, a, o in Greek ; it mostly falls together with the reflexes of PIE * a in the other languages ( always bearing in mind that short vowels in non-initial syllables undergo various developments in Italic, Celtic, and Germanic ):

Janos Harmatta gives the translation " Mithra's Begotten " and also supports the Iranian theory.

A. Alemany gives the additional elaboration that the related East Iranian Scythian ( and Alanic ) word * tarxan still survives in Ossetic tærxon (" argument, trial ") and tærxon kænyn (" to judge ").

Nahavand also gives its name to the musical mode ( maqam ) Nahwand in Arabic, Iranian and Turkish music.

The work uses heavily Persian administrative terms, gives considerable weight to Pre-Islamic Iranian history, uses native Iranian cosmological division system of the world.

The work uses much of the Persian administrative terms, gives considerable attention to pre-Islamic Iranian history, uses " native Iranian cosmological division system of the world ".

By the onset of the Second World War, he had acquired diplomatic immunity as the Iraqi Minister in Paris and he followed the French government when it fled to Vichy, serving the Pétainist Vichy France regime as its Iranian minister.

The Algiers Accords called for Iran's immediate freeing of the hostages, the unfreezing of $ 7. 9 billion of Iranian assets and immunity from lawsuits Iran might have faced in America, and a pledge by the United States that " it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs.

Ayatollah Khomeini was exiled to Turkey for his outspoken denunciation of the Shah's Status of Forces bill, which granted U. S. military personnel diplomatic immunity for crimes committed on Iranian soil.

Khatami protested to the courts ' prosecution of MPs, saying the practice contravened a political immunity which the Iranian Constitution has provided for the deputies.

This campaign came to an end after the Mykonos restaurant assassinations, because a German court publicly implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for Ali Fallahian, the head of the Iranian Intelligence.

Some members of the dynasty were Iranian, but mainly it was native Lycian.

According to the Central Bank of Iran in 2012, in 22. 5 per cent of Iranian families, all family members were unemployed.

On June 24, 2011 The EU's official journal said the three Iranian Revolutionary Guard members now subject to sanctions had been " providing equipment and support to help the Syrian regime suppress protests in Syria ".

In December, Iranian authorities executed 11 members of Jundallah reportedly connected to the July mosque attack.

Ultimately, while more than a dozen members of the Jewish community were executed by the new Iranian government, Jews were allowed to continue to live in Iran and there would be no Holocaust.

However, his policies of reform led to repeated clashes with the hardline and conservative Islamists in the Iranian government, who control powerful governmental organizations like the Guardian Council, whose members are appointed by the Supreme Leader.

In the Sassanid era, Esfahan was governed by " Espoohrans " or the members of seven noble Iranian families who had important royal positions, and served as the residence of these noble families as well.

Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the November 1980 presidential election but Carter continued to attempt to negotiate the release of the hostages through Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Algerian intermediaries and members of the Iranian government in the final days of his presidency.

This is corroborated by the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees ( formerly the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organisation ), most of whose members are based inside Iran and regularly provide reports of homophobic beatings, torture and imprisonment by state agents.

In 2006, after prosecutors in Argentina asked a judge to order the arrest of a former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and other members of his government in connection with the AMIA bombing, Bronfman said that " Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism ", adding that " the entire international community has a moral responsibility to ensure that Iran is held accountable for its terrorist actions.

In 2006, the WJC launched the Iran Update, “ a comprehensive weekly publication disseminated via the internet to most members of the US Congress and government, United Nations missions, foreign diplomats, European Union officials, and Israeli policymakers, in addition to Jewish communities worldwide .” The publication focused on exposing Iran ’ s ongoing pursuit of a nuclear capability, domestic Iranian politics, Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East and internationally, Israeli policy vis-à-vis Iran and the efforts of worldwide Jewish communities in combating Iranian Holocaust-denial and nuclear proliferation.

" In Peterson's opinion, the Iranian captors were " members of an armed force hostile to the US " in spite of not being " regularly constituted Iranian Army forces.

* April 5: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.

A high-level delegation, consisting the Iranian cabinet, members of the Parliament, Iranian Vice-President and President Khatami paid a three-day state visit in 2002.

It nevertheless boasts members in worker, student and other sections of Iranian society.

The conference, which took place at the start of February, was also said to have been attended by senior members of the Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian intelligence services who presented a list of Israeli intelligence officials to be assassinated.

The hostage-takers were members of the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan ( DRFLA )— Iranian Arabs protesting for the restoration of regional autonomy to the Iranian province of Khūzestān, also known as Arabistan.

At approximately 11: 30 on Wednesday, 30 April the six heavily armed members of DRFLA stormed the Iranian Embassy building on Princes Gate, South Kensington.

It has been designated as the twin sister of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian-Majority ( OIPF-M ) but has far fewer members.