Why did Iran choose democracy

Answer: Presidential elections in Iran raise a puzzling contradiction: How can the government include both an unelected supreme leader and a president who is chosen in votes that are treated as serious contests?

Put another way, is Iran a democracy or a dictatorship?

Citizens elect the president, as they will on Friday, as well as members of a legislature. But they are overseen by institutions staffed by clerics. One, known as the Guardian Council, approves all candidates for office, narrowing the scope of elections. Still other unelected bodies, like the Revolutionary Guards, wield tremendous power.

The supreme leader, who holds the position for life, is the most important figure, overseeing everything.

The system began with a series of hurried political compromises amid the country’s 1979 revolution. The end result was an Islamic republic, meant to combine democratic involvement with theocratic oversight. In practice, the two often clash, with unelected, unaccountable officials holding the most power.

The result has been 38 years of weak democracy but strong politics. Political factions, each with a base of support, compete through elections, and for influence among powerful bureaucracies.

Over the years, although the government has remained broadly authoritarian, it has oscillated among degrees of democracy. Those fluctuations, while subtle, have often coincided with elections like the one this week.

Explanation:

what the soul of america is about?

Agree or disagree with the following : Exodus father prover that humans have a tendency to sin are in need of God's grace.
Give 2 biblical citations from
Exodus 32: 7-9
Exodus 24: 3-7 and
Exodus 32: 1-4

What is the first president

The religion of Buddhism began after Siddhartha Gautama
became one of the richest people in India.
meditated until he found enlightenment.
learned about ancient Chinese religions.
defeated Hindu forces in battle.

2 fun facts each about Zeus and the three fates

(Answer ASAP plzz) Progressives: Who were they? How did they try to accomplish their goals? What goals did they accomplish?

Chocolate: The New Health Food Now you can stop feeling guilty about that bite of chocolate you had for dessert. Chocolate has been found to be a cause of weight gain. But scientists have discovered that it does have some health benefits. However, don’t reach for that chocolate cake just yet. Researchers found that only people who ate about one ounce of dark chocolate per day received the health benefit. Dark chocolate is full of flavonoids, which help prevent diseases. Flavonoids have been found to decrease cholesterol and reduce blood clots that can cause strokes. Flavonoids also boost a natural chemical in your brain called serotonin. Low serotonin can cause depression. That’s probably why eating chocolate boosts mood and feelings of well-being. Chocolate: A Bittersweet Pill Many new studies have found that chocolate has some unexpected health benefits. But before we start calling chocolate the new wonder food, let’s look at the facts. These so-called health benefits don’t beat the risks of eating too much chocolate. Chocolate is rich in fats and sugar. Eating too much of it can lead to weight gain. Other studies have shown that eating chocolate can trigger painful headaches in some people. In addition, chocolate can increase the risk of developing painful kidney stones in some people. Plus, only dark chocolate has health benefits, not milk chocolate. White chocolate also has no health benefits. 3 Select the correct answers. Which two points do the two passages agree on? Chocolate can boost feelings of well-being and lower depression. Dark chocolate has some health benefits. Eating chocolate in large amounts is good for health. Chocolate can cause weight gain. Eating chocolate can cause headaches in some people.

Spanish explorers'such as comblus and Magellan are best known for what​

what is the contribution of estrada administration in justice

Mexico and America share a similar story as they were both European colonies that broke away from their
Moarchies for Independence

True
False

Passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is matchless. It is superior to the force of arms. How, then, can it be considered only a weapon of the weak? Physical force men are strangers to the courage that is requisite in a passive resister. Do you believe that a coward can ever disobey a law that he dislikes? Extremists are considered to be advocates of brute-force. Why do they, then, talk about obeying laws? I do not blame them. They can say nothing else. When they succeed in driving out the English, and they themselves become governors, they will want you and me to obey their laws. And that is a fitting thing for their constitution. But a passive resister will say he will not obey a law that is against his conscience, even though he may be blown to pieces at the mouth of a cannon.
What do you think? Wherein is courage required — in blowing others to pieces from behind a cannon or with a smiling face to approach a cannon and be blown to pieces? Who is the true warrior — he who keeps death always as a bosom-friend or he who controls the death of others? Believe me that a man devoid of courage and manhood can never be a passive resister.
This, however, I will admit: that even a man, weak in body, is capable of offering this resistance. One man can offer it just as well as millions. Both men and women can indulge in it. It does not require the training of an army; it needs no Jiu-jitsu. Control over the mind is alone necessary, and, when that is attained, man is free like the king of the forest, and his very glance withers the enemy.
Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used. Without drawing a drop of blood, it produces far-reaching results. It never rusts, and cannot be stolen. Competition between passive resisters does not exhaust. The sword of passive resistance does not require a scabbard. It is strange indeed that you should consider such a weapon to be a weapon merely of the weak.3
Passage 2: Nelson Mandela
Some of the things so far told to the Court are true and some are untrue. I do not, however, deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by the Whites. . . .
. . . We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the Government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. . . .

. . . I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the Government met our peaceful demands with force.
This conclusion was not easily arrived at. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle. . . .
. . . I can only say that I felt morally obliged to do what I did. . . .
Above all, we want equal political rights, because without them our disabilities will be permanent. I know this sounds revolutionary to the whites in this country, because the majority of voters will be Africans. This makes the white man fear democracy.
But this fear cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the only solution which will guarantee racial harmony and freedom for all. It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on colour, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one colour group by another. The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs it will not change that policy.4

Hindus believe that souls are reborn after death forever.
True
False

Please answer this:

Source A: From a history of Liverpool written by the city’s public librarian in 1950 and padi for the city to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city's founding.

In the long run, the Triangular trade operation based on Liverpool was to bring benefits to all, not least to the transplanted slaves whose descendants have subsequently achieved in the New world standards of education and civilization far ahead of the countryne whom they left behind.

Source B: Written by a historian, J.F. Nicholls in 1881

There is not a brick in Bristol that was not cemented with the blood of a slave. Sumptuous mansions and luxurious living was made from the sufferings and groans of the slaves bought and sold by British merchants.

How far do source A and B agree? (7 marks)

According to most scholars, the very first humans to came to North America from Asia around 20,000 years ago.

BRAINLIEST ASAPP!!!
Did absolute power of a monarch benefit the rulers subjects? Why or why not?( 2-3 sentences)

8. What statement best describes "Appeasement" as it applies to
WWII?
a. Selling war material to countries at war.
b. Giving into a bully in hopes they will stop being a bully.
c. Punishing country for invading other countries
d. Slapping an embargo on a country for invading its neighbors

Which statement best describes Alexander the Great?A.He led Greece to victory in the Greco-Persian Wars.B.He was elected as the leader of Athens and led the fight against Sparta.C.He created a huge Greek empire and won every battle he ever fought.D.He spread Greek culture by establishing trade routes with the Persian Empire.

Why were workers available for factory jobs?

What larger era was the Europe dark ages a part of and the years of that larger era

Please help!! In your opinion, were the citizens of France justified in using armed force against their king during the French Revolution? Why or why not?

Roberto spent $49.62 for 6 T-shirts. Which number sentence shows the best
way to estimate the cost of each T-shirt?
A. $45 ÷ 5 = $9
B. $48 ÷ 6 = $8
C. $50 ÷ 10 = $5
D. $50 ÷ 5 = $10

Which of the following is an example of of a container filled with a pure substance rather than with a mixture?​

Please use the following text to answer the question.

Dalits, also known as "Untouchables," are members of the lowest social group in the Hindu caste system. The word "Dalit," meaning "oppressed" or "broken," is the name members of this group gave themselves in the 1930s. A Dalit actually is born below the caste system, which includes four primary castes: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriya (warriors and princes), Vaishya (farmers and artisans), and Shudra (tenant farmers and servants).

According to the text above what is another name for the group of people known as "Dalits?"

Question 1 options:

Vaishyas


Untouchables


Shudras

Question 2 (2 points)
As used in the reading, what does the word “Jatis” refer to?

The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term jati appears in almost all Indian languages and is related to the idea of lineage or kinship group. There are perhaps more than 3000 jatis in India and there is no one all-Indian system of ranking them in order of status. Yet in each local area jati ranking exists and is very much related to purity and pollution. Each jati has some unique job, but not everyone in the jati performs it. Thus there are barbers who do not shave, carpenters who do not build, and Brahmins who do not act as priests.

Question 2 options:

The thousands of subcastes in India


Marriage between members of different caste groups


The over complication of the caste system

Question 3 (2 points)


Answer the following 2 questions after reading the passage below



The Minoans



In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist, discovered the

buried ruins of a huge palace at Knossos (NAH-suhs), on the Mediterranean

island of Crete (kreet). Evans had stumbled on the remains of the earliest

civilization in Europe, one that flourished from about 3000 to 1100 B.C.E

Evans named it the Minoan civilization, after King Minos (MIY-nuhs), a

mythical ruler of Crete. As Evans dug up the ruins of the palace, he was astonished to find how wealthy and advanced the Minoan culture had been. He uncovered the remains of a sophisticated plumbing system that piped fresh water into the palace. His most striking discovery, however, was a series of frescoes—wall paintings made by applying colors to wet plaster. Some of the frescoes depicted plants and animals. Others showed Cretan men and women dressed in elegant clothes.

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The Minoans are thought to be the earliest civilization of…

Question 3 options:

Europe


India


Asia


According to the above map above what is the furthest area Buddhism spread to in 1000 years?

Question 5 options:

China


Japan


Ceylon

Based on this evidence, what might you infer about the importance of Armistice Day to
Americans?
A. Armistice Day became increasingly important to Americans after 1919.
B. Armistice Day became less and less important to Americans after 1919.
C. Armistice Day was never very important to Americans.
D. Armistice Day was important to just a few Americans.

the battle of bunker hill was important because it

What type of skeleton is found in the human body?
5 points
endoskeleton
outerskeleton
exoskeleton
none of the above

What are the two elected officials of the executive branch

This person is considered “one of the most detested" English kings
John
Charles
Henry II

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were both great artists of the Renaissance period. They were also bitter rivals. Why were these men threatened by each other's talent?

Why do loyalists living in the British colonies in North America reject the idea of revolution and seek to remain part of the British empire? (Also the picture is what I have to read, and a loyalist; someone who doesn’t support revolution in the British colonies in North America wrote that)