{"id":6595,"date":"2006-06-01T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cemmis.edu.gr\/chapter\/proteus-in-irans-political-system\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:53:07","slug":"proteus-in-irans-political-system","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/cemmis.edu.gr\/en\/publications\/middle-east-bulletin-1\/chapter\/proteus-in-irans-political-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Proteus in Iran&#8217;s Political System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"chapter-abstract-title\">Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>Iran&#039;s complex political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy. Power is practiced by a network of elected and appointed institutions in a system with no distinct limits. The recent developments in the country&#039;s interior have clearly shown the political system&#039;s complexity along with the Iranian society&#039;s contradictory tendencies. It is those aspects that create a strong impact on the international image of Iran, which is, once more, in the limelight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6595","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","cemmis_author-stella-athanasoulia-eng"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cemmis.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cemmis.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cemmis.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cemmis.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}