Alcune particolarità della forma di governo della Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran da Khomeini a Rohani

Some peculiarities of the form of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran from Khomeini to Rohani

Abstract

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a model between democracy and Islamic theocracy. The Iranian state is a unique model in the Islamic word, maybe for the reason that Iran is a Muslim Shia country, in which there is a partial balance of powers and an independent parliament and a direct-elected President. But the central point of this “constitutional theocratic” model is the role of the Supreme Leader who is the guarantee of the application of Islamic law in the system. The real source of this unique model is the theory of “Velayate faqih” founded by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

Islamic State, Velayate faqih theory, constitutional theocracy, Sharia, Supreme Leader