How Iran Works

by Joshua Tucker on July 7, 2009 · 1 comment

in Comparative Politics

Given the recent explosion of interest in Iran over the past month, I thought the following organizational chart might be of great use to people who have suddenly found themselves writing about Iran without knowing all that much about how the country is organized politically. Thanks to Nathan Gonzalez, author of Engaging Iran: The Rise of a Middle East Powerhouse and America’s Strategic Choice, who prepared the chart:

Iran org chart.jpg

(Click on the chart to get a larger, more legible, version…)

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Evan Hensleigh July 7, 2009 at 11:02 am

I did a similar chart a few weeks ago, that’s a little different: http://futuraprime.net/images/experiments/iran_government.png

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