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Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

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.

You seem to miss the point.  All of the above called them selves Democratic and Republics... and they were neither.  Iran is Islamic, it ain't a republic though.

To be a Republic you need real voting, you can't have real voting in the confines of one political party, because eveyrthing considered important is already decided by the oligarchy in control.

But Iran IS a republic. And not because it calls itself a republic (like East Germany had the word 'Democratic' in it's official name, because it sounded nice), but because it has the structure of a republic. The problem is that you seem to simply not understand what a republic is (like many Americans appearently don't, especially those of the REPUBLICan persuasion). What you call 'republic' is actually 'republic + liberal democracy'. Not all republics are liberal democracies (e.g. Iran, the Soviet Union), and not all liberal democracies are republics (e.g. the UK). Try to separate the two, and don't fuse them together.