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Questions tagged [iran]

Questions relating to the government or politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Republic of Iran is a country in the . Iran is a presidential republic with a consisting of an upper and a lower house, as well as the constitutional Guardian Council.

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How is Iran able to project its power?

Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Argentina, and so on ... Iran is everwhere. How is Iran able to project its influence so far away from home, even though they are under US sanctions?
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What benefit did Iran gets out of signing nuclear proliferation treaty?

why is there no Israel nuclear talk? says that Iran signed that agreement while Israel didn't. What did Iran get out of that agreement?
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Do "wipe off the map" and "erased from the page of time" differ in meaning?

There was some controversy over what Ahmadinejad said in a speech in 2005. Whatever this quotation from a decades-old speech of Khomeini may have meant, Ahmadinejad did not say that "Israel must be wiped off the map" with the implication that…
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Is it possible to accurately measure the turnout of Iranian elections?

I do not think that the official election participation numbers published by the Iranian government is trustworthy. Is it possible to measure the true number of Iranian people who vote in elections and are there any international monitoring on the…
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Does America have a serious plan to deal with Iran?

The Iranian regime actually is at war outside Iran The armed, pro-regime drone shot down by U.S. aircraft Thursday after it fired upon U.S.-led coalition members on patrol in southern Syria was Iranian-made, officials tell VOA. Is Iran really…
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