sensitive state: displaying the aporia of law and exception in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

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PHD student of Political Sociology, Razi University

Abstract

“current sensitive state” are a proposition that has prevailed in the governance of Iran right from the scratch of the Islamic revolution and become the basis of the virtuousness of decision-making, such that includes all governance dimensions and a sign of it continues to swing.; a situation which is established by anxiety, crisis and peculiarity, and the realm of Iranian biopolitics revolves around it. The framework for scrutinizing this situation is a permanent temporary status that has existed throughout the history of the universe and is latent in the concept of “the state of exception”, a situation swinging in law until it is respected. Agamben’s genealogy has demonstrated it in various forms, that each of them entails a special, structure apart from similarities and manifests themselves in two legal and extra-legal traditions. The essay postulates that the state of exception in Iranian society has been a state of crisis and the question of this essay is whether we can find its position in the legal tradition of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The threshold of indeterminacy and the display of interpretation, discrimination, and plurality of law are the upshot of this essay.

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