Questions tagged [iran]
Questions relating to the government or politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Why does Afghanistan use Solar Hijri calendar while they don't celebrate Nowruz as the new year day? [closed]
I was reading the Wikipedia article for Nowruz and the first map caught my eye:
Iran is the only country that Nowruz is both a national holiday and the new year.
Afghanistan on the other hand just ...
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Who gained more successes in Iran-Iraq war? [closed]
From the infobox of the Wikipedia article for the Iran-Iraq war:
Result:
Stalemate; both sides claim victory.
Iraqi failure to capture Iranian territories and bolster Arab separatism in Iran's ...
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What did China offer to Saudi Arabia and Iran in the triparty pact?
In April 2023, China mediated and signed a triparty deal with Saudi Arabia and Iran. As a result, Saudi Arabia normalized its relations with Iran after many decades.
What is the thing that China ...
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Besides Iran, are there any other countries which have held referendums to determine the future political system with only one candidate?
On 30-31 March, 1979 a referendum was held in Iran to determine the political system of the country (Previously the monarchial regime had been overthrown on February 11, 1979).
But the problem with ...
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Does China sell more weapons to Iran or to Saudi Arabia?
Interestingly, China is selling some non-trivial weapons like ballistic missiles to the "traditional US ally" Saudi Arabia.
Is it possible to know if China sells more weapons [e.g. in terms ...
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Why are most US news programs silent about Iran-Saudi deal announced at Beijing on March 10th?
Saudi Arabia, Iran restore relations in a deal brokered by China on March 10th. Now 3 days have passed, but I only saw MSNBC and BBC briefly reported it on their TV programs once. All the other news ...
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What does China have to gain from renewed ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/us/politics/saudi-arabia-iran-china-biden.html
China has been seeking military bases of its own in the region as it pursues energy resources and influence beyond ...
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Has Iran presented any evidence that their drones (used in Ukraine) were sent to Russia before the war?
It seems Iran initially denied they sent drones to Russia, but later Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that they sent some, but before the war.
“Some western countries have accused ...
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Why Iran does not sell drones to Ukraine instead?
Iran provides Shahed-136 drones to Russia, to launch them into Ukraine. This way, Iran obviously gets into friction with the EU, the US, and other world powers that are standing on Ukraine's side.
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Are Iranian citizens subject to their regime's laws on dress, etc., when they are publicly on view outside the country?
There have been countless images of female Iranian supporters dressed in party-hats and looking every bit as casually turned out as any Western women. In view of the recent severe, and brutal, actions ...
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What is/has been the obstruction to resurrecting the Iran nuclear deal exactly as it was agreed under the Obama administration?
If all parties are interested in reviving the deal, why didn't they all just re-agree to exactly the same terms that were already negotiated back in 2015? Which side is demanding more than what they ...
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Iran's Military in Which Regime Had More Power? [closed]
At the moment, Iran holds the 14th rank in military power in comparison to other countries. Iran's Supreme Leader claims that he has been prioritizing military power over the economy to increase ...
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Can The International Court of justice take action regarding the murder of Mahsa Amini by the Khamenei regime?
On 16 September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini, (Euro News), died in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances, potentially due to police brutality.
Can The International Court ...
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What is the state of the relationship between the US Democrats and Israel? [closed]
Recently, the Democrats granted a visa to Iran's President Raisi, against opposition, and he attacked the Holocaust. As I heard, some of his bodies who got visas are IRGC commanders, which is a ...
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What practical advantages does Iran get from full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation over and above bilateral deals it has?
Besides some (obvious) PR, what does full SCO membership mean for Iran that they don't get e.g. from their bilateral deals with China or with Russia?
There is a somewhat long article in Tehran Times ...
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What's the interest of reviving JCPOA when it can be revoked by the next US president?
In 2015 P5+1 signed an agreement(JCPOA) with the Islamic Republic of Iran and after 3 years, Trump revoked the deal and now they are about to revive it. Given that the deal does not have enough ...
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Why is the Iran regime so obsessed with Salman Rushdie?
I'm trying to understand why the Iran regime considers Salman Rushdie such a problem that they put millions of dollars bounties on him over the years. From my vague understanding Rushdie wrote an ...
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Does the US have a plan B in case the negotiations with Iran fail?
On October 13, 2021, the Guardian talked about a possible "plan B" in case Iran doesn't want to rejoin the negotiations, but did not clarify what that "Plan B" practically means, ...
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How do the Iranian authorities or state-leaning media describe Muqtada al-Sadr?
Muqtada al-Sadr despite being Shia seems to be leading an Iraqi faction that seems to want to be less aligned with Iran. (His supporters have recently stormed the parliament, "chanting anti-Iran ...
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What are the political obstacles to the resurrection of the Nabucco pipeline from Iran?
As already reported by another question the Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom has ceased gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria. The problem with alternative supplies is that they are few and ...
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Has Iran built this missile defense system by copying Russian S-200 system?
Iran unveils its new local-made AD-200 air defense missile system during DIMDEX 2022 in Qatar
Has Iran built this missile defense system by copying or reverse-engineering the Russian S-200 system?
Or,...
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How did Iran mitigate the effect of the SWIFT sanctions on them?
It seems to me although Iran faced hash sanctions with SWIFT ban in 2012 and again in 2018, their GDP took a hit and dropped for two years and but rebounded again (even through Covid). From the chart ...
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How exactly will the US restoring sanction waivers on Iran's civilian nuclear activity help Iran?
Recently it was announced that the Biden administration has restored the waivers on sanctions on Iran's civilian nuclear program - revoked in 2020 by the Trump administration - which were part of the ...
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How is Iran sustaining its economy?
Iran has been under US sanctions for a long time now.
Why isn't Iran collapsing like Venezuela or Cuba?
How is Iran sustaining its economy?
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Can you be an avowed atheist in Iran?
It seems that, at least as recently as 2014, Iran had a death penalty for apostasy. But apostasy isn't non-belief. In fact, that charge seems to be a rather contextual matter. In this Guardian story ...
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Is Iran's claim of civilian uses for 60%-enriched Uranium valid?
(This is a followup question, I suppose, to: Are there non-military uses of 20%-enriched Uranium?)
Following the US pulling out of the JCPOA agreement in 2018, and the other signatories enabling ...
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What do those Iranians who say "Death to America!" mean by it?
I was watching an old Anthony Bourdain show and I saw local Iranians in Tehran chanting "Death to America!" and then in the next scene saying "We need one day to be friends".
Do ...
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Is there anything the United States can do to stop the Taliban from selling American made military equipment to Iran?
Today I have been wondering about the possibility of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan selling some American made military equipment to Iran as a way of raising much needed cash for the new Taliban ...
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What are downsides of Israel's starting war on Iran? [closed]
Influenced by this question, now been deleted. In that question its author in rude and abusive form asked about why Israel still not bombing Iran.
I wonder what downsides (other than massacring ...
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Why is Former President Trump criticized for leaving the Iran Deal and his 'Maximum Pressure' campaign?
(Inspired by another question which was closed and deleted as a push question.)
According to the Financial Tribune:
The US special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said the maximum pressure campaign ...
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Why is the media assuming Iran did actually try to kidnap Masih Alinejad? [closed]
Recently four Iranians were accused of plotting to kidnap activist Masih Alinejad. Since then we've had articles like these in the media:
Activist targeted in kidnapping plot says Iran is testing the ...
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Why didn't the USA invade Iran before they could build up their missile arsenal?
Iran's Ballistic Missile Program
According to the above article, even though Iran started its domestic missile program during the 80s, it achieved its long-range missiles around the 2000s. As of 2021,...
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Does the US officially acknowledge that Iran diverted a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan in 2010?
Iran and Kyrgyzstan have claimed that a flight from Abu Dhabi to Bishkek was forced to land in Iran in 2010, leading to the arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi, who was later executed.
Interestingly, US ...
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Where can I find a copy of Iran's proposal pertaining to Palestine to U.N. Security Council on November 1, 2019?
From the official Khamenei.ir's "Which final solution?"
It appears that the uproar and the responses of the American and Zionist authorities and their mercenaries are for the most part ...
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Does IAEA conduct spot checks / surprise visits at Iranian nuclear facilities?
I have heard it claimed (in personal conversations) that when the IAEA wishes to make an inspection/visit to an Iranian nuclear facility, it is required to announce its visit a good number of days in ...
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Is Iran considered a democracy by the Western world?
In Iran, there is a supreme leader and a guardian council on top of the parliament. Any candidate for parliament must be approved by the supreme leader and the guardian council.
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Why doesn't the UK rescue Nazanin Zaghari? [closed]
Nazanin Zaghari is a dual British-Iranian citizen who has been detained for years because of allegations over plotting to topple the Iranian government. These claims are clearly fictitious, and it's ...
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Why has Pakistan never faced the wrath of the USA similar to other countries in the region, especially Iran?
As far as I understand, the USA's Middle East policy more or less revolves around Israel and its security. The countries which had antagonistic policies toward Israel were either taken out by Israel ...
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Can all sanctions imposed by Trump administration be removed by Biden?
Secretary Pompeo has recently announced some more sanctions on Iranian Astan Qods foundation. It seems that Biden wants to return to JCPOA and he should remove sanctions to be able to negotiate with ...
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Why did Saudi-Arabia not launch its own nuclear program in response to Iran’s? [duplicate]
Saudi and Iran have long fought each other through proxy wars throughout the Middle East. However when Iran started its nuclear program, how come Saudi didn’t do it in response?
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Why did the US dispossess an Iranian ship carrying natural gas to Venezuela?
I prefer the terms "filch" or "dispossess", not "seize", because:
[a] "senior U.S. official told The Associated Press that no military force was used in the ...
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Why are Iran and Pakistan members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)?
Although, OIC's web-site says:
The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in
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Does the Iran-China pact give the USA an option for slapping China with a large scale sanction?
Recently, the news is floating on the internet: Iran and China are negotiating a deal of $400 billion for seamless supply of oil for 25 years.
Does the pact give the USA an option for slapping China ...
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Did US threaten Iran to prevent its tankers delivering oil to Venezuela?
Recently, Iranian tankers delivered oil to Venezuela - which is badly needed, while Venezuela is under US embargo and sanctions.
In Iran that was claimed as victory. But were there any direct threats ...
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Why do Iranians play so risky games with the US? [closed]
It is undeniable that the relations between two countries are tense to say the least. And it has been so for decades, sometimes it gets a bit better, only to sink even lower later on.
Why is Iranian ...
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How would Iran have benefited from interference in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum? [closed]
At the end of April, Facebook published a report detailing over 50 networks which were removed from the platform due to 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' (CIB). In particular, over 500 pages, groups, ...
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Is it possible for Khomeinism to be a part of a democratic system?
Modern Iran is an authoritarian theocratic republic that follows the Khomeinism political ideology. However, some followers of Khomeini believe that the Khomeinism ideology was supposed to be a ...
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Does Iran have any trade deals with China and if it does, can they protect Iran's economy from economic sanctions?
I read about how Iran has been looking to China for trade in response to sanctions from the United States and the West and how Iran already trades with China using oil. However, what I want to know is ...
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Is Turkey busting the US (oil) sanctions on Iran?
What is known about the extent of Turkey's compliance with US sanctions on Iran?
I've read some conflicting reports. One from May said that Turkey completely stopped buying Iranian oil, obeying US ...
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How come Turkey and Iran are good friends despite Turkey having substantial Sunni population?
I've seen Iran is being viewed as a rival by practically every Sunni state. So, how come Iran maintains good ties with Turkey despite the latter having a substantial Sunni population?
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