islamic republic

Suppose that the Islamic Revolution failed; specifically, that interim PM Shahpour Bakhtiar did not invite Khomeini back to the country to create a "Vatican in Qoms" and so the theocrats fail their violent coup of the provisional government. How does Bakhtiar govern? What happens when...

In January 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini wrote an open letter to Mikhail Gorbachev. In the letter, Khomeini applauded Gorbachev for recognising the need for reform within the USSR and for supposedly seeing the ways that Marxism was insufficient as an ideology. However, he warned that, the way...

Harry Turtledove's book "Through Darkest Europe" has, in my opinion, a very unrealistic pod. In the novel, the Islamic world is very liberal and democratic and Europe is a hotbed for Christian fundamentalism and terrorism. The issue is not the events themselves but the pod that led to them. The...

How would Bangladesh become the Islamic Republic like OTL Iran, can be formed from the beginnings of independence or later years, whether by elections or a revolution in any forms? It can be Islamic Republic in name with Bangladesh as a liberal democracy instead. So what would happens if...

The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990, by the militant Islamist group Jamaat al Muslimeen, in which 114 members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted to stage a coup against the government of...