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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Head of the Executive Power in the Constitution of 1906?
The Shah is in very old term. It's almost like a monarchic term, like a king. In the context of democracy, should it be seen as like a supreme leader, king? Is the head of the executive power according to the constitution of 1906? They actually have a place in the constitution. But the actual term, Shah, okay, interesting. The term that Western word in the ancient times has been rex for royalty and the king in the Eastern world in India is Raj is the same origin, the same root. Iran never shared that. They had the idea of because rex and Raj. Rex and Raj both means the one that opens the road for basically enforcer
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