| Kasz216 said: Well for one... Iran isn't a Republic or a Democracy. It's government is completely controlled by the Rahstakhiz. It's a single party system in the vein of Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and Iraq. I mean.... Iraq had elections, doesn't make Iraq an actual Republic or Democracy. In general actually you find a lot of single party states like that actually call themselves "Democratic Republics". I mean, looking at the countries called that in history.... People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Democratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia German Democratic Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic Democratic People's Republic of Korea Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
Iran is a Republic. It's called an 'Islamic Republic'. Republics don't really need to have more than 1 political party. Several politcal parties are characteristic of states which are liberal democracies (be they republics or monarchies). You're giving attributes specific to liberal democracies to republics.
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