The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Way of Solving Quintuple Crises with a Democratic Mechanism

Because of the reality that the concept of citizenship would be defined alongside and in relation
to the concept of state, some other concepts, such as identity, participation, rights, and
responsibility of citizens, are related to the state in which they live. Explaining the context,
scope, content, and the depth of the concept of citizenship in a democratic state arose from an
Islamic school.Using the qualitative content analysis method, the present paper aims to prove
its claim that the content of citizenship in Iran, based on the theological, juridical, and ethical
substances of Imam Khomeini's thought, differs from the content of citizenship in its common
use.The paper addresses this question: what kind of mechanism has benefited the Islamic
Republic of Iran in identical, participatory, distributive, legitimately, and efficient levels?
Answering this question, the paper comes to the conclusion that though the Islamic Republic of
Iran, because of the eight years’ war, economic sanctions, and other obstacles, lost the
opportunity to realize the real setting of citizenship and has solved the problem of identity crisis
with the mechanism of political socialization. The Islamic Republic of Iran has also stressed the
civic and social equality in the citizenship scope. Because of this and using the mechanism of
social justice as equality of opportunities and possibilities, it succeeds to overcome the
distribution crisis. Also, applying the mechanism of political recruitment, the Islamic Republic
of Iran has scrunched the participation crisis. The concept of citizenship the Islamic Republic of
Iran follows the idea of identity and tautology between rights and duties and sees a strong
correlation between these two. Thus, it sees itself at the service of the nation and assumes the
nation as the helper and assistant of the government. This perspective has helped it to solve the
problem of legitimation crisis with the aid of the mechanism of global culture. It has also solved
the problem of efficiency with the mechanism of Jihadi management.

Keywords:

The Islamic Republic of Iran , Crises , Democracy , Citizens , Minorities.