Iranian Elections: the Chinese Model Vs. the North Korean Model
Even those who organize the exercise admit that what they offer is not elections in the normal sense of the term, a view echoed by almost all who participate as candidates. The reason is that Iranian elections, held every four years for the Islamic Consultative Assembly and, every eight years for the Assembly of Experts, represent a carefully choreographed exercise designed to maintain and consolidate power in the hands of a power elite in the context of what is, in effect, a one-party system. And, yet, despite their obvious limitations the ...
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