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| | Majles Elections |
 | | This trend intensified in the elections for the Fifth Majles in 1996. | | | The death of Khomeini, a significant blow to clerical dominance, proved to be a decisive factor in the elections for the Fourth Majles in 1992. | | | To understand the implications of Majles elections since the Islamic Revolution, it is necessary to examine the structure of Iranian elections as constructed by the Revolutionary constitution prior to the 1980 elections. |
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http://www.wm.edu/so/monitor/fall2000/paper5.htm
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| | Iranica.com - ELECTIONS |
| | The elections for the eighteenth Majles and for the Senate were conducted in winter 1954 and were controlled by the shah and Za@hed^, who was prime minister as well as minister of the interior. | | | The president and Majles deputies are elected for four-year terms; members of the Assembly of Experts are elected for eight-year terms. | | | The elections for the fourteenth Majles were the first in fifteen years to be openly contested rather than stage-managed by the court and the army. |
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http://www.iranica.com/articles/v8f4/v8f404.html
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| | The Militant - March 13, 2000 -- Report from Teheran on elections to Majles |
| | Prior to the elections, the Majles voted to raise the voting age requirement from 15 to 16 years. | | | This was an election marked by the candidacy of all the bourgeois currents of Iran, including pro-bazaar (mercantile) wing of Ayatollah Nateqe Nouri, who was the speaker of the fifth Majles; Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi; Raf-sanjani's Kargozaran (Functionalists) Party; and President Khatami's Mosharekat Front. | | | President Khatami was elected as president three years ago in a landslide victory against a favored leader of the conservative faction, Ayatollah Nateq Nouri, the speaker of the house in the current Majles. |
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http://www.themilitant.com/2000/6410/641073.html
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| | IRAN'S FIRST REFORMIST-DOMINATED MAJLES OPENED |
| | Rafsanjani, he pointed out that the Majles, as the "manifestation of the Republican system and the fundamental pillar of regime's legitimacy and the Constitution had the right to investigate and intervene in all the nation's affairs". | | | In the ruling, that was approved by the outgoing conservatives-controlled Assembly, the Expediency Council had forbid the Parliament the right to investigate administrations and institutions that are under the control of the leader. | | | Noteworthy was also the moderate tone of the leader's inaugural speech that was read to the audience by Hojjatoleslam Mohammadi Golpayegani, the influential Director of his private cabinet. |
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http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/majles_inauguration_27500.htm
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| | [ www.radiofarda.com ] |
| | After the mass resignation of 123 reformist Majles MPs and the interior ministry's assertion that fair, free and competitive elections cannot be held on February 20, Majles speaker Karrubi appealed to the Supreme Leader to resolve the conflict. | | | He says the Majles speaker's appeal to the Supreme Leader is illegal, since according to the constitution, the Supreme Leader has no jurisdiction over such matters, although the conservatives place the Supreme Leader beyond and above the law. | | | Meanwhile, Majles speaker Mehdi Karrubi asked the Supreme Leader to intervene. |
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http://www.radiofarda.com/transcripts/topstory/2004/02/20040201_1830_0140_0646_EN.asp
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| | Iranica.com - EQBAÚL, manuÚÙehr |
| | The elections of the Sixteenth Majles in October, however, were vigorously denounced by Moháammad Mosáaddeq, the leader of National Front (Jebha-ye mell^) and, consequently, Eqba@l was moved to the Ministry of Roads. | | | Cooperating with ¿Abd-al-H®osayn Ha‘^r, then minister of the royal court, his main task was to prevent the election of "undesired elements" to the Constituent Assembly (Majles-e mo÷assesa@n), the Sixteenth Majles, and the First Senate. | | | Eqba@l counteracted by sponsoring a bill in the Majles transferring the director's power to the prime minister on 12 February 1959; Ebteha@j resigned on the same day (Ebteha@j, I, pp. |
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http://www.iranica.com/articles/v8f5/v8f530.html
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| | Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002 - Iran |
| | Another Majles Deputy, Mohammad Dadfar, whose jail sentence was upheld by the courts, had not been sent to prison at year's end. | | | However, religious minorities, by law and practice, were barred from being elected to a representative body--except to the seats in the Majles reserved for them--and from holding senior government or military positions. | | | During the year, at least 17 Majles members were called before the courts for criticizing the Government in one form or another; 1 was sentenced to 40 lashes and another fined. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/hriran02.html
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| | MEHDI KARRUBI ELECTED AS NEW MAJLES COMPROMISE SPEAKER |
| | The temporary board is in charge of running the current affairs of the parliament and it's sessions until the credentials of two thirds of the deputies are confirmed and the permanent Board is elected. | | | May (ISP) As expected, Hojjatoleslam Medhi Karrubi, 63, was elected Tuesday as the interim Speaker of the sixth Majles (parliament) with 186 votes and 63 abstentions out of 251 present MPs who also made history as they elected for the first time a woman to the presiding Board of the 290-seats Assembly. | | | Rafsanjani announced his resignation from the Majles seat the Council of Guardians had illegally provided him. |
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http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/karrubi_speaker_30500.htm
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| | Ain-Al-Yaqeen - November 5, 2004 - Article 7 |
| | The Majles Ashura shall submit its recommendations, in respect to the draft laws, to the Councils of Ministers. | | | Each President of the State Council and Majles Ashura shall submit an annual report to the Sultan on result of the activities of the Council presided by him. | | | The emolument of the President of each one of the State Council and Majles Ashura and the remuneration of the members shall be determined as per Royal Orders. |
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http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com/issues/20041105/feat7en.htm
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| | Iranica.com - ESKANDARÈ, SOLAYMAÚN (MOH®SEN) MIÚRZAÚ |
| | He was arrested and exiled to Qom upon the disbanding of the Second Majles in December 1911 but was soon released and received an appointment in the Ministry of the Interior (Ba@mda@d, Reja@l II, pp. | | | He was elected from Isfahan to the Third Majles. | | | As deputy, he vehemently opposed Moháammad Mosáaddeq (q.v.), a distant cousin of his, who briefly served as minister of finance and also of foreign affairs as well as deputy in the Majles between 1922 and 1927. |
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http://www.iranica.com/articles/v8f6/v8f642.html
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| | Glossary of Important Iranian Terms and Concepts: |
| | Politically, the Majles has the ability to override any law passed by the legislative body that is unacceptable to the Islamic faith, decree laws for the promotion of Islam, and remove any leader or representative from office for contradictions of Islamic law. | | | The Majles is a group of Islamic religious elders who have the power to pick religious/political leaders, subject laws to religious review, and decree laws insucceptable to discussion or review by the government. | | | The Majles is, in many respects, the most powerful political entity in Iran and ensures that the principles of the Koran will be manifested into laws and governmental policy. |
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http://www.u.arizona.edu/~volgy/iranfp.html
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| | THE IRANIAN: Opinion, Revolutionary initiates, Hamid Zangeneh |
| | This would ensure their independence from all other organs of the government after they are confirmed. | | | In his system the leader assumes the role of the President and everyone would be subject to elections to some extent. |
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http://www.iranian.com/HamidZangeneh/2002/January/Steps
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| | PersianIran.com - HISTORY OF IRAN, Political and cultural personalities --- |
| | Subsequent negotiations with the AIOC were unsuccessful, partly because General Ali Razmara, who became prime minister in June 1950, failed to persuade the oil company of the strength of nationalist feeling in the country and in the Majles. | | | Under the constitution, if the Shah were to die before the crown prince had come of age, the Majles would meet to appoint a regent. | | | Mossadeq had come to office on the strength of support from the National Front and other parties in the Majles and as a result of his great popularity. |
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http://www.persianiran.com/history/pahlavi.asp
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| | Middle East Report Online: Round 12 for Iran's Reformists, by Kaveh Ehsani |
| | To the clamor for his resignation from provincial governors and ministers, Khatami replied: "We will stay together or leave together." He has encouraged the striking Majles deputies to continue their sit-in as long as candidates are being screened out of the upcoming polling on spurious grounds. | | | With the wholesale disqualifications, the conservative clerics hope to seat a docile parliament (Majles) which will open the way to unification of Iran's fractured political system under a conservative monopoly after Khatami steps down from the presidency in 2005. | | | Iranians have not forgotten that it was a sit-in at Parliament that marked the beginning of Iran's Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911). |
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| | Middle East Report 233: Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo and the Sixth Majles: A Woman in Her Own Right, by Ziba Mir-Hosseini |
| | The way Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo captured the public imagination with her resignation from the Sixth Majles contrasts intriguingly with Fa’ezeh Hashemi’s election to the fifth parliamentary assembly in 1996. | | | With this appointed ( farmayeshi) Majles, they seek to erase republicanism and freedom from the political face of this country forever
. | | | Fa’ezeh Hashemi entered the Fifth Majles with much fanfare. |
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http://www.merip.org/mer/mer233/mir-hosseini.html
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| | AsiaSource: Asia Biography - a resource of the Asia Society |
| | He held various government positions from an early age, serving as a member of the Iranian Majles (parliament) from 1915 to 1917, again from 1925 to 1928, and finally from 1944 to 1953. | | | Mossadegh and the National Front led the opposition to the oil agreement, and the Majles elections of 1950, in which the National Front candidates gained a large number of new seats, reflected the growing popular support for the anti-British, nationalist position long held by Mossadegh. | | | In 1951, after the assassination of Ali Razmara and a brief interim government led by Husain Ala, Mossadegh was elected prime minister. |
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| | Iran's Uncivil Wars |
| | Mohammad Reza Khatami, the president's brother and the leader of the reform faction in the Majles, told Reuters last week that the prospects for reform remained limited despite his bloc's claim of up to 216 MPs in the house. | | | Ahmad Pour-Nejati, for example, resigned as head of the Majles' Cultural Committee, which had helped draft the new press-law amendments, to protest Khamenei's edict. | | | This strategy backfired on Sunday, August 6, when Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, forbade the Majles to consider a new bill that would have rolled back harsh press curbs passed in the final days of the previous, conservative-majority Majles. |
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| | [ www.radiofarda.com ] |
| | However, only 10 received the required 25 percent of the votes to win their seats in the first round; the rest of Tehran's 30 seats will be decided in runoff elections. | | | •More than 50 percent of eligible voters turned out for the Friday elections, 17 percent less than the previous Majles elections, but still more than expected by the reformists, who had boycotted the elections. | | | •We shall turn Iran into an Islamic Japan, top vote getter Gholamali Haddad Adel, a relative of the Supreme Leader, and possibly the next Majles speaker, said in an interview with Tehran daily Aftab-e Yazd. |
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http://www.radiofarda.com/transcripts/topstory/2004/02/20040222_1530_0350_0629_EN.asp
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| | A New Era For Iran? |
| | Majles, but they have lost the overwhelming majority that they enjoyed during Rafsanjani’s last | | | the young, who were tired of Khatami’s election rival, Majles Speaker Nateq-Nuri. | | | opposed his free-market reforms, but that failed to produce a more cooperative Majles. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fairbank.htm
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| | THE DAILY "SALAM" BANNED, CONTROVERSIAL PRESS BILL APPROVED IN THE MAJLES |
| | Dorri-Najafabadi resigned in February after he admitted that the murderers were official agents of his administration. | | | Emami, but by a team of advisers to the Minister and finally it did not dealt with the press law. | | | The telephone order for the closure of Salam came shortly after the Majles approved the general outlines of the bill amending the existing press law by 125 to 90, with more than 50 MPs absent. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~ivl/news13.htm
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| | Speaker of Iranian Parliament Asked to Condemn Comments Endangering Woman Lawyers |
| | As Speaker of the Majles, we respectfully urge you to promote and welcome the involvement of lawyers in public debate of matters concerning the law in the Islamic Republic as being in the best interests of the society. | | | Kar were exercising their internationally recognized right to comment on matters concerning the law and to promote the cause of justice and human rights. | | | We ask that you condemn irresponsible comments from members of the Majles that may endanger the personal security of lawyers exercising their fundamental rights. |
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| | ECONOMY: Iranian Conservatives Block Development Bill |
| | The plan drafted by reformist technocrats, sought to reform inheritance laws, and make changes in the management of state radio-tv monopoly and other institutions now under conservatives’ control, such as the supreme cultural revolution council, he adds. | | | It was sent to the Majles last year after cabinet approval. | | | The previous, reformist session of the Majles, approved the plan, and sent it directly to the Expediency Council for arbitration after the Guardians Council found 115 of the plan’s provisions contrary to Islam and the Islamic Republic constitution. |
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| | TehranAvenue Economic News |
| | The TAV and Turkcell controversies were cited by Dowlatabadi as the main reason for not being able to meet the stated target. | | | This had been carried out on the orders of Supreme Leader Khamenei following the removal of key privatization clauses in the Fourth Development Plan (2005-2010) by the conservative-dominated Majles. | | | One of the key issues pointed to by Danesh-Jaâfari is the Central Bank of Iranâs (CBI) lack of independence in tackling the problem, noting that the CBI governor cannot deal with this issue, âwhen all 30 members of the cabinet want to dictate their own monetary policies.â |
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| | Iran: Majles Conservatives Block Free Market Economic Reforms |
| | Most provisions reversed by the Majles were aimed at removing the obstacles to privatization of state-owned enterprises and ending state economic monopolies, Khavand adds. | | | The provisions would have allowed the government to privatize the state banking monopoly and allow foreign banks to operate in Iran. | | | Majles’ conservative majority reversed plans for reforms aimed at decreasing the role of state in the economy by re-writing several provisions of a five-year development plan, which had been approved by its predecessor, but rejected by the conservative Guardians Council. |
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Furthermore, your concern, as stated, limits itself to the amendments of the Press Law by the Fifth Majles, which implicitly endorses the Press Law of the Islamic regime in the past 20 years. | | | This is unprecedented in the history of Amnesty International and is a gross violation of its charter. | | | Your statement would even surprise the members of "Majles e Eslami." They would be the first to tell you that women's equality and freedom, as it is known in the western world, has no place in the Islamic state. |
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http://www.iwsolidarity.com/objection.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Iran |
| | The Polling by William Hogarth (1755); Before the secret ballot was introduced voter intimidation was commonplace The secret ballot is a process in elections where the choice of the voters is kept confidential. | | | The "Majles", seat of the legislative branch of the government of The Islamic Republic of Iran. | | | This is a list of current Iranian officials with their titles, last checked and updated on October 12, 2004: Heads Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader Mohammad Khatami, President Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, Speaker of Majlis Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Head of the Judiciary Branch Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Guardian Council Ali... |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Iran
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| | The Militant - July 23, 2001 -- Workers in Iran rally against factory sell-offs |
| | It is Khamenei's office, not the Majles or any governmental agency, that has the authority to oversee the work of the bonyads. | | | Alireza Mahjoub, a Majles deputy from Tehran and a trade union official, told the Financial Times July 3 that 1,400 companies are in a critical state following privatization. | | | Workers told ISNA reporters at the demonstration that after their protests at the Majles they planned to gather in front of the house of head of state Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. |
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| | Challenging the Majles, Judiciary detained briefly Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo, female MP - Tribune Azad |
| | Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo, a reformist deputy, was arrested on the orders of a Tehran Justice Administration presided by Sa’id Mortazavi, a hard line judge who, because of the great number of the press he has shut and | | | She also expressed her regret that the judiciary, which is tasked with upholding the constitution, would itself be guilty of violating it. | | | But she had refused to obey, stating that as a parliamentary deputy, she was entitled to immunity from prosecution for remarks made in the Majles, adding that in her opinion any summons issued to her would be a violation |
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| | Iran: An open letter to members of Iran's Sixth Majles |
| | We would also urge you to ensure that any amendments are in accordance with Article 19 of the ICCPR. | | | In this context, we welcome the recent public statements by a number of newly-elected Deputies expressing their intention to review and reject the restrictive amendments to the Press Law which were passed in the last days of the Fifth Majles, which permit the detention of prisoners of conscience. | | | A free press in any country plays an important role in raising public awareness of social and political issues, thus leading to an informed public debate, which is one of the hallmarks of a dynamic civil society. |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/iran/document.do?id=D20D14CDDECB6D7380256928007211EF
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| | RFE/RL'S PERSIAN SERVICE |
| | * Lawyer Mohammad-Hossein Aghasi says the constitution stipulates only that Islamic law and the constitution, not the ideas of the Leader, should be the basis for the Guardians Council decisions on Majles bills. | | | He tells RFE/RL that if the constitutional principle of absolute power of the Leader takes precedence over other constitutional principles, such as sovereignty of the people, then there is no need for the Majles. | | | * Abolfazl Musavian, a member of the Qom society of seminary teachers and scholars, tells RFE/RL that constitution does not indicate the Guardians Council should review Majles bills according to the regime's "expediency," for which another body was created in a 1989 constitutional amendment. |
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http://www.radioazadi.org/transcripts/topstory/2002/05/20020507_1500_1335_2313_EN.asp
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| | Municipal Flags (Israel) |
| | Local Council of Julis ( Mo'atza Mekomit Julis, Majles Makhaly Julis, Golis) | | | Local Council of Dir Hanna ( Mo'atza Mekomit Dir Hanna, Majles Makhaly Dir Hanna) | | | Local Council of Kfar Manda ( Mo'atza Mekomit Kfar Manda, Majles Makhaly Kafar Manda) |
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| | Social Research: Appendix: Chronology of Events Regarding Women in Iran since the Revolution of 1979 |
| | Education: M.D. April 1994 The Majles passes a law allowing women to become legal consultants in the Special Family Courts and Administrative Justice Courts. | | | July 1989 A bill is introduced in the Majles to transfer the power of divorce from the husband to the Special Civil Court (as stated in the Family Protection Law). | | | February The Majles passes a law giving the Special 1985 Courts total power over rights of custody. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_2_67/ai_63787338
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| | IRI : Program Highlights |
| | All major committee chairmen and one vice president of the Majles were present. | | | This was the first IRI training in Oman offered to members of the Majles A’Shura. | | | As a result of the success of IRI’s training, leaders of the Majles asked IRI to provide additional training for its members. |
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http://www.iri.org/progweeklysummary.asp?id=4561230277
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| | Alliance of Iranian Students - The Majles Elections will be boycotted |
| | Alliance of Iranian Students - The Majles Elections will be boycotted | | | February 20, equivalent to the first day of the month of Esfand, is the day Iran opens their polls for the seventh Majles (Parliamentary) elections. | | | Weeks in counting prior to these elections, the nation has witnessed a wide range of controversy and elimination of reformist candidates. |
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http://www.daneshjooyan.org/english/communique/2004/180204a.html
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| | AsiaSource: AsiaFACTS - A resource of the Asia Society |
| | He was elected shah by the First Majles (national assembly) after his father, Muhammad Ali, had been deposed and sent into exile. | | | He never returned to his country; in October 1925 the Majles deposed him as shah, abolished the Qajar family as the royal dynasty, and established the Pahlavis as the new royal family. | | | Please click here for legal restrictions and terms of use applicable to this site and Asia Society's Privacy Policy. |
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| | Former Iranian MP Blasts Majles for Scraping “Gender Equality” from Rights Bill |
| | The women MP voted to keep the provision, which had been previously approved by the Majles, but Ms. | | | August 20, 2004 - “No religion can deny the need for justice and equality among all people,” reformist former Majles MP Fatemeh Rakei tells Radio Farda’s broadcaster Golnaz Esfandiari, blasting the conservative Majles for scratching a provision that called for “gender equality” from a bill on protection of women’s rights. | | | Rakei criticizes them for not standing up to defend their belief and urge others to join them. |
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http://www.payvand.com/news/04/aug/1204.html
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| | Majles Speaker says Iran |
| | Majles Speaker says Iran 'must build up militarily' |
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http://polsci.uwsuper.edu/MajilesSpeakersays.html
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| | : Sixth Majles Election in Iran: Methods and Tactics | | | : The 6th Majles Elections in Iran: What Happened and What Can we Expect? | | | : President Khatami and The Sixth Majles: Prospects and Expectations |
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http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libarts/monshipouri/cira/cont161.html
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| | IranianVoice.org - 127 Majles Rep's letter to Khamenehi |
| | Please take a second and vote for this article: | | | The comments and submissions are property of their posters and their source, all the rest © 2002-2003 by IranianVoice.org | | | Copy of letter by 127 Majles Rep to Khamenehi made available on the internet. |
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http://www.iranianvoice.org/article933.html
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