Iran

Ancient Parthia corresponds to parts of modern northeastern Iran and southern Turkmenistan.
Parthia was a significant historical region that played a crucial role in the ancient empires of Iran. It was located in the northeastern part of Greater Iran, bordered by various geographical features and neighboring regions.
The ancient Parthian Empire played a significant role in shaping modern Iranian culture by promoting a revival of Iranian traditions and blending them with Hellenistic influences, particularly in art, religion, and governance. This cultural synthesis laid the groundwork for the subsequent Sasanian Empire and contributed to the development of a distinct Iranian identity that persists today.
Zoroastrianism influenced Parthian culture most strongly through its ethical ideals, Royal law ideology, Religious rites and ceremonies, and view of the world.
The earliest Zoroastrian material, especially the Gathas, does not present a centralized “Zoroastrian state” ruled by a divinely authorized monarch. That would come later when it became a state religion. Its original social world appears to be organized around households, kin groups, communities, local leaders (not rulers), priests, and citizen warriors. Cooperation begins with the family, its patriarch, and expands outward through reciprocal obligations and duties among related households and communities bound by social bonds.
Their original Royal law was based on individual duty to love your neighbor.
Ethical responsibility was required and admired by their culture. It was reasonable that each individual must choose "asha—truth and right order—over druj, falsehood and disorder." The most important Zoroastrian value * Asha: truth, order, justice, and the proper functioning of the world.
* Druj: falsehood, disorder, and moral corruption—the forces opposed to asha.
* Humata, hukhta, hvarshta Good thoughts, good words, and good deeds: an emphasis on individual moral responsibility.
* Divine fire conformed to purity: fire symbolized truth, divine presence, and cosmic order.
* The conflict between good and evil: Light and darkness. Man was expected to love the light producing ethical conduct.
 : These ideas helped shape the Parthian culture. The people were expected to preserve justice, defend the land, uphold social order, and protect the tradition of pure religion.
This moral fitness and possession of khvarenah, would bring the fruit according to the perfect law of liberty. To follow the way of strange fire would bring bondage and tyranny.
Overall, Zoroastrianism gave Parthian culture a powerful moral and political framework: truth against falsehood, order against chaos, rightful kingship, personal responsibility, religious purity, and duty to the community.
Zoroastrian concepts also reinforced Parthian social and political traditions. Overall, Zoroastrianism gave Parthian culture a powerful moral and political framework: truth against falsehood, order against chaos, rightful actions, personal responsibility, religious purity, and duty to the community.

Make Iran Great again

Why did the once great people of Parthia so quickly become victims of the Moslem radicles?

Islam has been one of the most ruthless imperialistic colonizers throughout its history. Iran was a victim of its policies inn 1979.

This happened because of practices that introduced into their nation in the 1920's which are opposed to the precepts and principles found within in the Sacred Scripture and the wisdom of the ancients prophets, philosophers and historians.

Those practices darkened the eyes of the people so that under a strong delusion they believed a lie.

The whole world is now under a similar strong delusion and none will return to greatness until the people began to see the error of Balaam.

The Iranian people must choose to return to the way of righteousness. If they desire liberty they must promote personal liberty and therefore responsibility and duty to their creator and abandon the reward of unrighteousness offered by the gods of the world.

That means they must rely on fervent charity only. They must look to the perfect law of liberty for all their Social welfare and abandon the ways of "legal charity" because such are Covetous practices where "people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

The struggle of Iran

The land called Iran has been a place invaded and conquered for centuries. Iran easily fell to the tyranny that is often associated with Caliphates of an the Islamic States.

The future of the world will not be secured by the might of men ruling over other men but by their repentance to Love thy neighbour as thy self.

Why were a finite group of violent extremists able to take over the millions of the people of Iran.

• Alexander the Great conquered between 334 and 331 BC, defeating King Darius III.
• The Arsacid (Parthian) dynasty, overthrew Seleucid Greek
• The Muslim Caliphate Rashidun invaded in the 7th century.
• Turkic and Mongol Forces: invaded in the 11th century.
• Timur (Tamerlane) invaded in 1381 with brutal campaigns.
• Afghans invaded 1722 brought the Safavid Empire to an end.
• Russians took parts of the Caucasus in the 18th into the 19th century.
• British and Soviets occupied it during World War I.
• In 1941, a joint Anglo-Soviet invasion occupied Iran.
• Iraq's Saddam Hussein invaded from 1980-1988, with Iran reclaiming its territory.

The Persians were always a religious people but religions may differ over time if people forget the righteousness of God and follow the deeds of the Nicolaitan which God hates.

Did Iranians lose their way and begin to do the deeds that made them more vulnerable to tyrants?

Pre-Pahlavi Era Qajar Dynasty, 1794–1925

The process of Iran's descent into tyranny did not begin with the Ayatollah but it began when the people made the fatal error of depending on men in government who exercise authority one over the other for government welfare benefits. The dainties of rulers have long been known as a snare and a trap where liberty and the masses begin to degenerate.

State-sponsored welfare was virtually non-existent in the modern sense. Instead, support was fragmented and rooted in religious and social obligations.

• Religious Endowments (Vaqfs): The primary source of welfare was the vaqf system—charitable endowments managed by the clergy (ulama) that funded hospitals, schools, and soup kitchens.
• State Pensions for Elites crept into the state did provide pensions and subsidies, but these were almost exclusively for the royal court, high-ranking officials, and the military.
• Traditional Support: Most citizens relied on extended family networks and local community guilds for protection against sickness or poverty.
• Constitutional Demands appeared following the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, workers began demanding modern social insurance, though no concrete laws were implemented at that time.

Early Pahlavi Era

Reza Shah, (1925–1941)

During the early Pahlavi Era, Reza Shah began the "Meiji-style" centralization of Iran, which included the first formal state-led social security initiatives.

Social insurance

• Civil Servant Coverage: The first formal social insurance laws (1922, 1931, 1933) were designed to secure the loyalty of the rapidly growing state bureaucracy.
• Industrial Labor Initiatives: In 1936, the state introduced a program targeting urban workers in large enterprises to manage the challenges of a new industrial class.
• While Reza Shah built the Infrastructure over Welfare and centralized some services, his agricultural policy remained semi-feudal. He personally acquired thousands of villages, and most rural peasants remained without any state protection.

Extent of Welfare Before 1941

• Highly Selective: Before 1941, "welfare" was a tool for state-building. It prioritized those essential to the regime's stability—soldiers and bureaucrats—while ignoring the vast majority of the rural population.
• Limited Implementation: While laws for non-government workers were drafted in the late 1930s, they largely remained a "dead letter" and were not effectively implemented until the mid-20th century.

Iran 1925–1941

Before the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (who is typically referred to as "the Shah"), social security and state welfare in Iran transitioned from a traditional, decentralized system to the first formal bureaucratic models under his father, Reza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1925–1941).

Before the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (who is typically referred to as "the Shah"), social security and state welfare in Iran transitioned from a traditional, decentralized system to the first formal bureaucratic models under his father, (r. 1925–1941).

Iran 1941–1979

Under the Shah (1941–1979), particularly after the 1963 White Revolution, Iran developed a state-led, albeit fragmented, social security system focusing on industrial workers and civil servants. Key welfare included worker social insurance (health, disability, pensions) and rural initiatives like land reform, aiming for modernization and political loyalty.

Social Security and Welfare

Worker Social Insurance was initiated properly in the 1940s-50s, the Social Insurance Organization (later Social Security Organization) provided pensions, disability payments, sickness benefits, maternity leave, and compensation for industrial injuries.

Civil Servants Retirement

Specialized, comprehensive pension and health coverage was provided for government employees.

White Revolution Reforms introduced in 1963, these initiatives aimed to improve rural life through land reform, profit-sharing for factory workers, and establishing rural cooperatives. Universal Health Coverage Attempts: By the 1970s, efforts included "Free Food for Needy Mothers" and newborns, alongside increasing investment in rural clinics.

Housing

Housing and Social Welfare by the state, via the White Revolution, aimed to provide stable, affordable housing and food support for rural and urban workers.

Extent of Welfare

Targeted Coverage: Social insurance was strong for urban employees of state-owned industries and state personnel, but limited for the vast agricultural population until the late 1960s/70s.

Fragmented System:

Welfare was largely managed through multiple, disparate organizations catering to specific, organized working groups rather than a comprehensive, national welfare state. Rapid Growth: The social security system grew rapidly, yet by the time of the 1979 revolution, it still had not achieved universal coverage, leaving a reliance on traditional family support structures.

Politicization of Welfare was partly a tool of state control, with the government aiming to win loyalty and prevent leftist insurgency by covering industrial workers.

"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.

The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.

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Revolting revolutions

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was ultimately led and consolidated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a prominent Shia cleric.

Once the Shah fled, the broad coalition of secularists, leftists, and Islamists immediately fractured. Did Khomeini systematically dismantle his rivals using a classic "divide and conquer" strategy? Or was he dancing to the sirens of greed, gain, and opulance?

He seems to have been poor and made himself rich.

Guadeloupe Conference

In January of 1979 political leaders of the US, UK, France, and West Germany met and promoted the idea that the Shah’s regime was completely corrupt and unsalvageable.

They chose to withdraw their backing for the Shah supposedly to prevent a civil war and the age old threat of the "domino effect of a communist takeover.

The Shaw regime was certainly filled with corruption and dependent upon political support to maintain order but without the social bonds that come with true "Judeo Christian" values the semi descent values of the hard working moderate and moral people of the former Persian nation would be plundered by the inevitable "revolt" against the Shaw and his government.

The rise of Ayatollahs

Iran supposedly operates as a theocratic republic, but in fact, it is a hybrid system where candidates must be approved before running for office then elected to psuedo-democratic institutions that are subordinate to unelected clerical bodies.

The structure is designed to ensure that all state activities align with Islamic law (Sharia).

Khomeini built his own shadow government in the chaos created by the broad coalition of the naive secularists, leftists, and Islamists. That coalition would immediately fracture as Khomeini systematically dismantled his rivals using a classic "divide and conquer" strategy.

The French connection

Khomeini had been in exile exile in a little French village outside Paris yet he was allowed to access international media which gave him a massive protected platform for his poisonous political theory and ideology.

He was allowed to present himself to Western journalists as a peaceful, "Gandhi-like spiritual figure" who just wanted democracy and human rights but if journalist had been even slightly objective they would have reported the true nature of his revolting politics that would reveal its blood thirsty policies in the almost have century of his Aytollah regimes.

Aid and Abet

He would need a well oiled and experienced intelligence service to spy on his rivals without detection. This would require a steady and secure source of funds to finance their operatives and cohorts while undermining the competition.

Ayatollah Khomeini could not do all this alone. They needed continuous help, reliable intelligence, and invisible protections to outlive their competition.

The principalities of Mystery Babylon had a long history of control of such institutions of espionage and subversion and no moral compunction nor merciful boundaries to hinder them.

Mankind is but a resource to serve their purposes satisfying their hunger for power and prominence.

The theory that Ayatollah Khomeini was secretly installed, bankrolled, or aided by "globalist bankers" or Western financial elites is a prominent narrative, but used historians and carefully placed declassified documents paint a an alternate picture to cloud the truth.

Babylonian Bankers

Rather than see the financial banking empire that has carved the vain national a psuedo religious puppets that are often little more than the pawns of modern political theater that has become so pervasive throughout the playbook of modern geopolitics a false narrative was broad casted into the supple minds of an emotionally pliable population.

As the real movers of economies, policies, and ideologies painted their claims from a mixed pallete centered on the genius and calculating political deceptions of Khomeini in the dim light of a severe geopolitical miscalculation by some Western governments a dialogue of deception echoed in the algorithms of social media.

Naive acceptance

Rather than admit that a world wide financial banking empire has systematically carved out a place in the hearts of the people with a covetous system the vain national public religion.

A system that made the people pliable puppets in a the political theater pervasive throughout the playbook of modern geopolitics as the real movers of economies, policies, and ideologies paints their agenda with a mixed pallet of diversity.

For Iran the script centered itself on the genius and calculating political ideology of an Ayatollah swirling in a soup of severe geopolitical calculation manipulating some corruptible and useful Western governments.

The strings were well fastened when years prior the masses had already tied puppet strings to their actions by unjust weights and measures, "covetous practices", including the public religion of socialism which darkened their eyes.

In their blindness and vanity the once prosperous nations allowed the deindustrialization of their country. The young nations sowed the weeds of excessive liberty undermining the patriarchy of the natural family for the parents patria of the state.

Feelings over facts.

Feminism empowered women confusing the traditional gender roles of their familial society.

Already less than half of psychologists rank truth first over ideology. Today, in a survey among academics 66.4% of male professors chose truth over ideology while 43% of female professors chose ideology over truth. That is a 23-point gap.

Women presently account for over 70 percent of the new psychology doctorates in universities..

The male)female distinction and uses come first in the development of society while race and nationality are social constructs.

The way of truth gave way to the lies.

Many Iranians believed the lie and followed Komeinie and his own vain obsessions of "world" domination through the delusion of an Islamic caliphate.

The Supreme Leadership

Supreme Leader: The highest authority in the state. He serves as the head of state and commander-in-chief, holding ultimate power over the military, judiciary, and state media. Following the assassination of Ali Khamenei in February 2026, his son Mojtaba Khamenei has assumed the role. Assembly of Experts: A body of 88 clerics elected by the public to eight-year terms. Their constitutional duty is to elect, supervise, and—if necessary—dismiss the Supreme Leader, though they rarely challenge his authority.

Executive Branch

President: The second-highest official and head of government. Elected by popular vote for a four-year term (maximum two terms), the president manages day-to-day administration and the economy. Masoud Pezeshkian currently serves in this role.

All candidates must be approved by the religious counsel before they can even run

Cabinet: Composed of ministers chosen by the president and confirmed by the Parliament.

Legislative Branch Majlis (Parliament):

A unicameral legislature with 290 members elected to four-year terms. It drafts laws and approves the national budget.

Guardian Council: A powerful 12-member oversight body. It consists of six clerics appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists nominated by the judiciary and approved by the Majlis. It must approve all legislation to ensure it complies with the constitution and Islamic law, and it vets all candidates for elections.

Judicial Branch

Head of Judiciary: Appointed by the Supreme Leader for a five-year term. The current head is Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i. Court System: Includes public courts for civil and criminal cases, as well as Revolutionary Courts for national security crimes.

Reasons for Sanctions

Following the Iranian Revolution, the government nationalized 28 private banks and numerous private industries.

• During 1980 through 1988, over 80% of Iran's economy was transferred to the control of the elites under government control for personal enrichment.

• 10 million people fled and million or more Iranians murdered with their assets seized.

Who has been taking whose money?

There are many reasons for the sanctions.

Why 3,000 ballistic missiles were built or aquired?

Why did they lie about the range of missiles?

Why so much money spent on a means to mine and block the straights?

Why so much money invested in proxy wars?

Why a regime of possible fear gap?

Why mass exodus?

Why are so many Iranians against the this Islamic regime in power and okay with the foreign attacks?

Highest per-capita execution

Iran has been seen as the number one sponsor in the world for terrorism for some time to say nothing of how they terrorized the people who lived in the country. An estimated 4 to 5 million Iranians have fled from Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

United Nations, and prominent human rights historians point to tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands imprisoned. Iran consistently has one of the highest per-capita execution rates in the world.

Political dissidents executed

Between 1981 and 1985 Historians estimate that between 7,900 and 9,500 political dissidents were executed during the regime’s initial clampdown on opposition groups following the so called "revolution".

Independent estimates of mass murder

In the summer of 1988, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a secret fatwa resulting in the coordinated mass murder of thousands of political prisoners.

Independent estimates place the death toll between 3,000 and 30,000 people killed in a span of just a few months.

Bloody November

In 2019 the "Bloody November" protests the government pressed a brutal multi-day internet blackout to hide the slaughter of between 300 and 1,500 peaceful protesters.

Women and children murdered

In 2022 the "Woman, Life, Freedom" Protests suffered at least least 551 protesters, including dozens of children, were murdered by government "security forces".

Executions from Independent UN experts

Independent UN experts and human rights groups report that at least between 3,100 and 5,000+ protesters were again murdered by the government of Iran, where the records show in 2025 that 2,159 people were officially executed.

Top global sponsor of terrorism

Governments and international reports continue to label Iran as the top global sponsor of terrorism. Iran provides backing to militant and political groups across the Middle East.

Revolting consequences

To calm the secular middle class and Western observers, Khomeini initially appointed a secular liberal, Mehdi Bazargan, as the first Prime Minister. This gave the illusion that the new government would be a democratic republic, keeping the liberals cooperative while Khomeini built his own shadow government. The Rise of Parallel Power Structures: While the official government was run by secular politicians, Khomeini created parallel, fiercely loyal institutions: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC): A paramilitary force created specifically to protect the regime from internal coups and crush armed leftist groups.

Genuine religious freedom

Iran does not have places with genuine religious freedom.

Iran is essentially an Islamic government that calls itself a Republic.

Their constitution makes Twelver Shia Islam the official religion and treats other beliefs as subordinate.

Recognized minorities

• Zoroastrians, Jews, and certain historic Christian communities (Armenian Apostolic, Assyrian, and Chaldean)—are allowed limited practice of their rites, personal-status matters, and religious education “within the limits of the law.”

They have reserved seats in parliament. Everything else is more than tightly restricted.

Recognized minorities can maintain some visible places of worship in specific neighborhoods:

• Tehran has active synagogues, Armenian churches, and a Zoroastrian fire temple; Si-e Tir Street is often cited for having a mosque, church, synagogue, and fire temple close together.
• Isfahan’s Jolfa quarter contains historic Armenian churches, including Vank Cathedral.
• Yazd and Kerman have Zoroastrian fire temples and pilgrimage sites.

These sites exist under government oversight. Proselytizing, worship in Persian by unrecognized groups, conversion from Islam, and public criticism of official doctrine are forbidden everywhere. Even recognized communities report surveillance, employment barriers, and pressure to keep a low profile. There are no autonomous regions, special economic zones, or cities where these rules are suspended.

Unrecognized minorities

Iran’s largest non-Muslim minority are the Baha’is who are systematically targeted with arrests, home raids, property confiscation, denial of education and jobs, and imprisonment.

Reports from 2025–2026 document hundreds of incidents and dozens of people still detained. Christian converts, house-church members, and anyone distributing Bibles or holding Persian-language services are frequently arrested under laws against “propaganda contrary to Islam.” Apostasy from Islam and atheism carry severe penalties. Sunni Muslims and other groups also face discrimination and periodic crackdowns. Conditions worsened after regional conflicts in 2025.

Most severe violators

Independent monitors (USCIRF, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, UN special rapporteurs, and groups tracking Christian and Baha’i cases) consistently describe Iran as one of the world’s most severe violators of religious freedom, with no geographic exceptions.

Government statements emphasizing “coexistence” refer only to the narrow, controlled arrangements for the three recognized historic minorities. No public places in Iran are legally exempt.

No public place exempt

No public places in Iran are legally exempt. The requirement that women cover their hair in public remains national law under Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code. It applies to Iranian women and foreign visitors alike. There are no official free zones, islands, or cities where the rule has been repealed.

In practice the picture is uneven:

• Private spaces: Homes and hotel rooms have never required covering. Women dress as they choose behind closed doors.
• Everyday public spaces in major cities: Enforcement has dropped sharply since the 2022 protests. In Tehran (especially northern neighborhoods), Isfahan, Shiraz, Karaj and similar urban areas, many women now walk streets, sit in cafés, ride public transport or motorcycles, and visit parks without covering their hair. Morality-police vans are far less visible than they once were. Reports from 2025–2026 describe this as common and increasingly open.
• Official and religious sites: Government offices, universities, banks, courts, and shrines (especially in Mashhad and Qom) still enforce the rule. Women are routinely told to cover or turned away.
• Businesses and events: Authorities sometimes close cafés, restaurants or shops that allow uncovered women, and they use cameras, drones and citizen-reporting apps. Hardliners periodically push for tighter street enforcement, but it has not returned to pre-2022 levels in most cities.

The gap that sparks fear

The gap between the written law and daily life is therefore large in some urban settings and small or nonexistent in conservative or official ones. The legal obligation itself has not changed anywhere.

Sharia and Islamic religious law

Sharia is the broader body of Islamic religious law drawn from the Quran, the Prophet’s example (Sunnah), scholarly consensus, and analogical reasoning, as interpreted by jurists in a particular school of fiqh. In Iran that school is Twelver Ja‘fari Shiism.

The Islamic Penal Code is the state’s written criminal statute that turns selected Sharia rules into enforceable national law. The two, both Sharia rules and Islamic Code, are linked by the Iranian Constitution.

Article 4 of the Constitution states that every civil, penal, financial, and other law must rest on “Islamic criteria.” The Guardian Council, whose six faqih members are appointed by the Supreme Leader, reviews legislation to confirm it meets that test. Article 167 further instructs judges to consult “authoritative Islamic sources and authentic fatwas” when the written code is silent.

The 2013 Penal Code therefore organizes offenses and penalties according to the classical Sharia categories:

• Hudud — fixed punishments whose type and amount are regarded as set by God (adultery, certain sexual acts, theft that meets strict conditions, drinking alcohol, moharebeh, ifsad fil-arz, insulting the Prophet, etc.).
• Qisas — retaliation (“an eye for an eye”) for intentional killing or bodily injury.
• Diyat — prescribed blood-money payments for unintentional harm or when retaliation is waived; the detailed tables for organs and functions (including the testicle provisions in Articles 665–666) come directly from Sharia rulings.
• Ta‘zir — discretionary punishments left to the legislator or judge for everything else. These can draw on Sharia principles of public order and deterrence but are not fixed in the primary sources; they include imprisonment, fines, and flogging for offenses such as the hijab rule.

In summary, Sharia supplies the religious sources and categories; the Islamic Penal Code is the state’s attempt to translate those sources into a single, numbered statute that courts can apply. The result is a hybrid: parts of the code quote or closely follow classical fiqh, while other parts (especially ta‘zir and procedure) reflect modern legislative choices that the Guardian Council has accepted as compatible with Islam.

Iran 2026

Iran operates as a theocratic republic, a hybrid psuedo democratic system where candidates must be approved and then elected to institutions and offices that are subordinate to unelected clerical bodies. The structure is designed to ensure that all state activities align with Islamic law (Sharia).

The Supreme Leadership

Supreme Leader: The highest authority in the state. He serves as the head of state and commander-in-chief, holding ultimate power over the military, judiciary, and state media. Following the assassination of Ali Khamenei in February 2026, his son Mojtaba Khamenei has assumed the role. Assembly of Experts: A body of 88 clerics elected by the public to eight-year terms. Their constitutional duty is to elect, supervise, and—if necessary—dismiss the Supreme Leader, though they rarely challenge his authority.

Executive Branch

President: The second-highest official and head of government. Elected by popular vote for a four-year term (maximum two terms), the president manages day-to-day administration and the economy. Masoud Pezeshkian currently serves in this role.

All candidates must be approved by the religious counsel before they can even run

Cabinet: Composed of ministers chosen by the president and confirmed by the Parliament.

Legislative Branch Majlis (Parliament):

A unicameral legislature with 290 members elected to four-year terms. It drafts laws and approves the national budget.

Guardian Council: A powerful 12-member oversight body. It consists of six clerics appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists nominated by the judiciary and approved by the Majlis. It must approve all legislation to ensure it complies with the constitution and Islamic law, and it vets all candidates for elections.

Judicial Branch

Head of Judiciary: Appointed by the Supreme Leader for a five-year term. The current head is Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i. Court System: Includes public courts for civil and criminal cases, as well as Revolutionary Courts for national security crimes.

Sanctions

Following the Iranian Revolution, the government nationalized 28 private banks and numerous private industries. (1980–1988), over 80% of Iran's economy was under government control. 10 million people fled and million or more Iranians murdered with their assets seized. Who has been taking whose money?

There are many reasons for the sanctions.

Why 3,000 ballistic missiles.why did they lie about the range of missiles. Why so much money spent on a means to block the straights. Why so much money invested in proxy wars. Why are so many Iranians against the regime in power.

Key Oversight & Consultative Bodies

Expediency Council: Appointed by the Supreme Leader to mediate disputes between the Majlis and the Guardian Council. It also serves as a top advisory board to the leader.

Supreme National Security Council: Chaired by the president, it coordinates defense and foreign policy, with its decisions requiring the Supreme Leader's final approval.

The Quds Force

The Quds Force (meaning "Jerusalem Force" in Persian) is the elite extraterritorial branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It serves as the primary instrument for Iran’s regional power projection and unconventional warfare.

Military Role

Extraterritorial Operations

The Quds Force functions as a combination of a special operations unit and an intelligence agency, similar to a blend of the CIA and JSOC.

Proxy Management

It is the architect of the "Axis of Resistance," a network of regional allies including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and various Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.

Unconventional Warfare

Its activities include training, arming, and financing these groups, as well as conducting assassinations, espionage, and clandestine operations abroad.

Strategic Defense

By maintaining these proxy forces, the Quds Force establishes a "forward defense" for Iran, allowing it to engage adversaries like Israel and the U.S. indirectly.

Political Structure - A Parallel Authority

Within the Iranian state, the Quds Force operates with a high degree of independence from the elected government. Direct Accountability: While technically a branch of the IRGC, the Quds Force commander reports directly to the Supreme Leader. Following the transition of power in early March 2026, the Quds Force has officially declared its allegiance to the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Foreign Policy Influence

The force often acts as a "shadow" Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its commanders frequently negotiate directly with foreign leaders and non-state actors, sometimes bypassing the formal diplomatic channels of the Iranian President and Foreign Minister.

Command Structure

Commander Brigadier General Esmail Qaani has led the force since January 2020, succeeding Qasem Soleimani.

Independence

Because it answers only to the Supreme Leader, it is not subject to parliamentary oversight or presidential endorsement.

Economic and Intelligence Functions

Financial Networks

To fund its operations and bypass sanctions, the Quds Force manages extensive illicit commercial networks, including oil smuggling and money laundering.

Domestic Repression

Although its primary mission is external, senior Quds Force commanders have historically participated in suppressing domestic dissent during major protest movements within Iran.

Civil government

Iran's civil government depends on elections but candidates have to be approved by a counsel or they cannot run for office. In fact anyone who oppose policies of the Islamic state may end up in prison or worse.

War cometh

Iran has been planning to block the straight and putting thousands of ballistic missiles, over 20 mine laying boats hundred of speed boats only good for sinking tankers and commercial boats. They were ordering supersonic missiles. They claimed their ballistic missile could only go 1209 kilometer but have been shooting missiles over 4000 kilometers. They lied!

They funded the Hutty to close a choke point for oil while there plan was to cut oil at Hurmuz straights and that is why and what they were planning for years. Their goal was to control other countries with these choke points. Some of those countries are on the board of peace and helping break this regime that has threatened peace for years, funded terrorism, and brutalized their own citizens for years

10 million of their citizens have fled the country and over a million killed in the last 4 decades. Millions of women raped and abused, deprived of liberty American women take fo granted. Lately thousands have been killed by that ruthless government for wanting liberties Americans do not appreciate . In fact if every one who said the believe in Jesus, or Moses or even Abraham there would be no reason to even risk war.