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On the other are the Supreme Leader, a Guardian Council of clerics, and an Islamist military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which reports directly to the Supreme Leader.
The Supreme Leader is constitutionally empowered to set forth the general policies of the state, supervise the execution thereof, command the armed forces of the state, declare war and peace, determine the suitability of the President, and appoint and dismiss key officials including members of the Guardian Council, the supreme judicial authority, the various military commanders, and the head of the state media.34 The Guardian Council oversees elections, including rejecting potential candidates who are considered insufficiently Islamic, and can strike down legislation the parliament might pass, if it is considered inconsistent with Islamic principles.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati of the Guardian Council, speaking in 2007, expressed the point clearly, "When all is said and done, we are an anti-American regime.
Reformist legislation was rejected by the Guardian Council, demonstrations were met with brutal force, and Khatami was publicly humiliated when he was forced to back down under threats by the IRGC.
Domestically, the conservative Guardian Council disqualified over 3,500 candidates from running for parliament, resulting in a reformist boycott of the 2004 parliamentary election.63 Having thus swept parliament, the conservatives engineered the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential race, consolidating conservative control of the state institutions.
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