State Machinery of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The decision making process within the Iranian regime is the product of a fusion between post and pre revolutionary institutions that I conceptualize as Iron fisted and Velvet gloved. Iran’s Iron fist comprises of the institutions that are the direct offspring of the revolution of 1979, its Velvet glove are the ones that originally emerged out of the Constitutional Revolution of 1905, were carried on by the Pahlavi regime and later imbibed by the Islamic Republic. The constitution of Iran systematically precludes the pre revolutionary institutions (Velvet Glove) from participating in the checking and balancing of the Post revolutionary (Iron Fist) institutions putting the Iron Fist at the forefront of the decision making process while marginalizing the Velvet Glove.