The Real Iran.
The West gave Iran a name — theocracy — and buried the reality beneath it. They never told you that Khomeini spent decades mastering one of the most rigorous legal traditions in human history, or that he built a constitutional republic ratified by 98% of the Iranian people in a free referendum. A nation of fanatics can be bombed with a clear conscience. A constitutional republic of 93 million people, founded by a supremely gifted jurist, is harder to dispose of. Read what they did not want you to know. What They Never Told You: Ayatollah Khomeini Was a Great Jurist, Not a Fanatic By Lim Tean I want to tell you something that may surprise you. Iran has a constitution. It has an elected parliament. It has a president chosen by popular vote. It has a supreme court. It has a body analogous to a constitutional review council. It has institutional checks between competi...
