sapphi_snake said:
Iran is a republic also. It's also a theocracy. If what you're saying is true (your rights come from "god", your constitution has roots in Christianity etc,), then your country is also a theocracy. |
Iran is nominally a constitutional theocracy, but i would define a theocracy as one where actual religious figures hold political power, as is the case in Iran and pretty much nowhere else in the world, through the Ayatollah Khameini
Most states have some sort of acknowledgement of a higher power as foundational to their statehood, except for either very young nations or countries that went Communist. I mean, the Japanese royal family still believes (though it is nominally illegal for them to do so) that they are descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami
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