Iran

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Der Sachverhalt, der von FAZ und Spiegel nur oberflächlich behandelt, dafür vorwiegend propagandistisch ausgenutzt wurde, ist eigentlich sehr interessant. Von Ayatollah Khamenei wurde, ob intentional oder nicht, eine Diskussion über das bestehende Regierungssystem losgetreten und mögliche Änderungen in den Raum geworfen. Die folgende politische Debatte wird öffentlich geführt. Grund genug, sich nicht nur oberflächlich über "Auflösungserscheinungen in der Islamischen Republik" (FAZ) zu erheitern:

Iran debates shift to parliamentary system
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

TEHRAN - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's hint last week that the "presidential system" might give way to a parliamentary system has sparked an intensive debate about the merits of such a shift. Though couched in the language of a future possibility, the statement provides new ammunition in the country's factional politics.

"In the future, the parliamentary system can be possibly revived," Khamenei said at a lecture during his week-long trip to the province of Kermanshah, where he scolded the government officials for not doing enough to tackle rising unemployment in the province.

Replacement of the presidential system with a more European-style parliamentary system would mean scrapping the office of president and a resurrection of the role of prime minister in a revised system based on parliamentary consensus. Defenders of the proposal point to often tense relations between the Majlis (parliament) and the executive branch headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and say the change would bring about closer parliamentary scrutiny of the government.
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Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, is the author of After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy (Westview Press). For his Wikipedia entry, click here. He is author of Reading In Iran Foreign Policy After September 11 (BookSurge Publishing , October 23, 2008) and his latest book, Looking for rights at Harvard, is now available.