Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.
You see how that’s NOT election right? That’s just a group of elites appointing an heir.
An election is not necessarily something done by the people. What you’re thinking of is called “universal suffrage”.
He wasn’t elected, rumors are that the clerics were pressured to vote for the son of the supreme leader…
Well that’s something else, but it doesnt change the fact thaft an election can be a small group of people electing a nation leader.
Yeah.
Election of the pope.
Election of the chair.
Those elections are done by a small group of people.
you mean like the Shah?
So? Like the head of state in some liberal democracies. For example, the Prime Minister (and the President of the Republic) in Italy.
It’s still called an election. It’s just not democratic.
He’s not a king, dude. I don’t love their system of government, where they give any share of power to religious representatives… but it is their system. They also do have elections for parliament and president. I don’t know much more than that, but it’s not like the ayatollah is an absolute monarch.
Every time I see someone say some wack ass shit and look to see their instance, it’s lemmy.ml
what they said is completely factual and logical, whats your problem with that statement?
Something in the water
Every time I see someone complaining about .ml it’s because they can’t engage with reality.