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A History of Modern Iran

Ervand Abrahamian · Cambridge University Press · 2008

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Ervand Abrahamian
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DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511984402
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedIran's 1979 constitution vested leadership in a just and learned Islamic jurist (velayat-e faqih) alongside an elected president and parliament, and created a Guardian Council of six clerics and six jurists to review legislation and supervise elections.EstablishedIn the summer of 1988, after the ceasefire with Iraq, the Islamic Republic executed thousands of political prisoners after summary hearings, most of them members of the People's Mojahedin and leftist groups.TheoryThe revolutionary state's rural development and primary health-care programmes of the 1980s laid the foundation for a welfare state that narrowed gaps between rural and urban Iran.