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"text": "information varies; approximately 65,000 active armed forces (55,000 Army; 2,000 Navy; 8,000 Air Force); approximately 15,000 Ministry of Internal Affairs troops (2022)"
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"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
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"text": "the inventory of the Azerbaijan military is comprised mostly of Russian and Soviet-era weapons systems with a small mix of equipment from other countries, including Israel and Turkey (2022)"
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"text": "the military's inventory is comprised mostly of Russian and Soviet-era weapons systems with a small mix of equipment from other countries, including Israel and Turkey (2022)"
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"Military service age and obligation": {
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"text": "men age 18-35 years for compulsory military service; service obligation 18 months (non-university graduate) or 12 months (university graduates); 17 years of age for voluntary service (men and women); 17-year-olds are considered to be on active service at cadet military schools (2021)",
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"text": "18-35 years of age for compulsory military service for men; 17-35 years of age for voluntary service for men and women (2022)",
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> as of 2018, women made up an estimated 3% of the active duty military"
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"Military - note": {
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"text": "the inventory of the Armenian Armed Forces includes mostly Russian and Soviet-era equipment (2022)"
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"Military service age and obligation": {
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"text": "18-36 years of age for voluntary/contractual (men and women) or compulsory (men only) military service; contractual military service contracts are concluded for 3-12 months, or for a term of 3-5 years; 2-year conscript service obligation, which can be served as an officer upon deferment for university studies if enrolled in officer-producing program; 17-year-olds are eligible to become cadets at military higher education institutes, where they are classified as military personnel; citizens aged 27 to 50 are registered in the military reserve and may be called to serve if mobilization is declared (2021)",
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"text": "18-27 for voluntary/contract (men and women) or compulsory (men) military service; contract military service is 3-12 months or 3 or 5 years; conscripts serve 24 months; men under the age of 36, who have not previously served as contract servicemen and are registered in the reserve, as well as women, regardless of whether they are registered in the reserve can be enrolled in contractual military service; all citizens aged 27 to 50 are registered in the military reserve and may be called to serve if mobilization is declared (2022)",
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> as of 2021, conscripts comprised about half of the military's active personnel; as of 2018, women made up about 13% of the active duty military"
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"Military - note": {
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"Executive branch": {
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"chief of state": {
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"text": "King HAMAD bin Isa Al-Khalifa (since 6 March 1999)"
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"text": "King HAMAD bin Isa Al-Khalifa (since 6 March 1999); Crown Prince SALMAN bin Hamad Al-Khalifa (born 21 October 1969)"
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"head of government": {
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"text": "Prime Minister SALMAN bin Hamad Al-Khalifa (since 11 November 2020); first deputy prime minister (vacant); Deputy Prime Ministers MUHAMMAD bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa (since September 2005), Jawad bin Salim al-ARAIDH, ALI bin Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa (since 11 December 2006), KHALID bin Abdallah Al-Khalifa (since November 2010); note - KHALIFA ibn Salman Al Khalifa, who served as prime minister since Bahrain's independence in 1971, died on 11 November 2020"
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"text": "Prime Minister Crown Prince SALMAN bin Hamad Al-Khalifa (since 11 November 2020); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure KHALID bin Abdallah Al Khalifa (since 13 June 2022)"
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"cabinet": {
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"text": "Cabinet appointed by the monarch"
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"text": "1,476,706 (Palestinian refugees) (2020)"
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"IDPs": {
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"text": "131,000 (includes persons displaced within the Gaza Strip due to the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since June 2014 and other Palestinian IDPs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank who fled as long ago as 1967, although confirmed cumulative data do not go back beyond 2006) (2020)"
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"note": "data represent Gaza Strip and West Bank"
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"text": "131,000 (includes persons displaced within the Gaza Strip due to the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since June 2014 and other Palestinian IDPs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank who fled as long ago as 1967, although confirmed cumulative data do not go back beyond 2006) (2020); note - data represent Gaza Strip and West Bank"
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"text": "supreme leader appointed for life by Assembly of Experts; president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term and an additional nonconsecutive term); election last held on 18 June 2021 (next to be held in June 2025)"
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"election results": {
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"text": "<em>2021:</em> Ebrahim RAISI elected president; percent of vote - Ebrahim RAISI (CCA) 72.4%, Mohsen REZAI (RFII) 13.8%, Abbdolnaser HEMATI (ECP) 9.8%, Amir-Hosein Qazizadeh-HASHEMI (Islamic Law Party) 4%<br><br><em>2017:</em> Hasan Fereidun RUHANI reelected president; percent of vote - Hasan Fereidun RUHANI (Moderation and Development Party) 58.8%, Ebrahim RAISI (Combat Clergy Association) 39.4% , Mostafa Mir-SALIM Islamic Coalition Party) 1.2%, Mostafa HASHEMI-TABA(Executives of Construction Party) 0.5%"
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"text": "<em>2021:</em> Ebrahim RAISI elected president; percent of vote - Ebrahim RAISI (CCA) 72.4%, Mohsen REZAI (RFII) 13.8%, Abbdolnaser HEMATI (ECP) 9.8%, Amir-Hosein Qazizadeh-HASHEMI (Islamic Law Party) 4%<br><br><em>2017:</em> Hasan Fereidun RUHANI reelected president; percent of vote - Hasan Fereidun RUHANI (Moderation and Development Party) 58.8%, Ebrahim RAISI (Combat Clergy Association) 39.4% , Mostafa Mir-SALIM Islamic Coalition Party) 1.2%, Mostafa HASHEMI-TABA (Executives of Construction Party) 0.5%"
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> 3 oversight bodies are also considered part of the executive branch of government"
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"Political parties and leaders": {
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"text": "Combatant Clergy Association [Mostafa POURMOHAMMADI] (an active political group)<br>Executives of Construction Party [Hossein MARASHI]<br>Followers of the Guardianship of the Jurisprudent [Ali LARIJANI]<br>Front of Islamic Revolutionary Stability [Sadegh MAHSOULI, secretary general]<br>Islamic Coalition Party [Asdollah BADAMCHIAN]<br>Islamic Iran Participation Front [associated with former President Mohammed KHATAMI]<br>Islamic Law Party<br>Militant Clerics Society<br>Moderation and Development Party <br>National Trust Party<br>National Unity Party<br>Pervasive Coalition of Reformists [Ali SUFI, chairman] (includes Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front, National Trust Party, Union of Islamic Iran People Party, Moderation and Development Party)<br>Principlists Grand Coalition (includes Combatant Clergy Association and Islamic Coalition Party, Society of Devotees and Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution, Front of Islamic Revolution Stability)<br>Progress, Welfare, and Justice Front [Mohammad Saeed AHADIAN]<br>Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran or PJP [Hosein GHORBANZADEH, general secretary]<br>Resistance Front of Islamic Iran [Yadollah HABIBI, general secretary]<br>Steadfastness Front<br>Union of Islamic Iran People's Party [Azar MANSOURI]<br>Wayfarers of the Islamic Revolution"
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"text": "Combatant Clergy Association [Mostafa POURMOHAMMADI] (an active political group)<br>Executives of Construction Party [Hossein MARASHI]<br>Followers of the Guardianship of the Jurisprudent [Ali LARIJANI]<br>Front of Islamic Revolutionary Stability [Sadegh MAHSOULI, secretary general]<br>Islamic Coalition Party [Asadollah BADAMCHIAN]<br>Islamic Iran Participation Front [associated with former President Mohammed KHATAMI]<br>Islamic Law Party<br>Militant Clerics Society (Majma-e Ruhaniyoun-e Mobarez) or MRM [Mohammad Mousavi KHOEINIHA]<br>Moderation and Development Party [Hassan ROUHANI] <br>National Trust Party (Hezb-e E'temad-eMelli) or HEM [Elias HAZRATI]<br>National Unity Party<br>Pervasive Coalition of Reformists [Ali SUFI, chairman] (includes Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front, National Trust Party, Union of Islamic Iran People Party, Moderation and Development Party)<br>Principlists Grand Coalition (includes Combatant Clergy Association and Islamic Coalition Party, Society of Devotees and Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution, Front of Islamic Revolution Stability)<br>Progress, Welfare, and Justice Front [Mohammad Saeed AHADIAN]<br>Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran or PJP [Hosein GHORBANZADEH, general secretary]<br>Resistance Front of Islamic Iran [Yadollah HABIBI, general secretary]<br>The Society of the Militant Clergy of Tehran (Jame’eh-ye Ruhaniyyat-e Mobarez-e Tehran) or JRM)<br>Union of Islamic Iran People's Party (Hezb-e Ettehad-e Iran-e Eslami) [Azar MANSOURI]<br>Wayfarers of the Islamic Revolution"
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"International organization participation": {
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"text": "CICA, CP, D-8, ECO, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, SAARC (observer), SCO (observer), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)"
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"Military and Security": {
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"Military and security forces": {
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"text": "Islamic Republic of Iran Army or Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh): Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces (IRIGF), Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah): Ground Forces (IRGCGF), Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces (Popular Mobilization Army); Law Enforcement Forces (border and security troops, assigned to the armed forces in wartime) (2022)",
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"note": "<strong>note 1:</strong> the Artesh Navy operates Iran’s larger warships and operates in the Gulf of Oman, the Caspian Sea, and deep waters in the region and beyond; the IRGC Navy has responsibility for the closer-in Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz<br><br><strong>note 2:</strong> the Basij is a volunteer paramilitary group under the IRGC with local organizations across the country, which sometimes acts as an auxiliary law enforcement unit"
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"text": "the military forces of Iran are divided between the Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces (Artesh) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah)<br><br>Islamic Republic of Iran Regular Forces or Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Air Force, Air Defense Forces; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC or Sepah): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines), Aerospace Force (controls strategic missile force), Qods Force (aka Quds Force; special operations), Cyber Electronic Command, Basij Paramilitary Forces; Law Enforcement Forces (2022)",
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"note": "<strong>note 1:</strong> the Artesh Navy operates Iran’s larger warships and operates in the Gulf of Oman, the Caspian Sea, and deep waters in the region and beyond; the IRGC Navy has responsibility for the closer-in Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz<br><br><strong>note 2:</strong> the Basij is a volunteer paramilitary group under the IRGC with local organizations across the country, which sometimes acts as an auxiliary law enforcement unit; it is formally known as the Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed; it is also known as the Popular Mobilization Army<br><br><strong>note 3: </strong>Law Enforcement Forces include border and security troops"
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"Military expenditures": {
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"Military Expenditures 2021": {
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"note": "<strong>note: </strong>as of 2019, approximately 80% of Artesh ground forces personnel were conscripts, while Navy and Air/Air Defense Force personnel were primarily volunteers; conscripts reportedly comprised more than 50% of the IRGC "
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"Military deployments": {
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"text": "estimated 1-3,000 Syria (2022)",
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"text": "estimated to have up to 3,000 military personnel in Syria (2022)",
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> Iran has recruited, trained, and funded thousands of Syrian and foreign fighters to support the ASAD regime during the Syrian civil war"
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"text": "president indirectly elected by the Knesset for a single 7-year term; election last held on 2 June 2021 (next to be held in June 2028); following legislative elections, the president, in consultation with party leaders, tasks a Knesset member (usually the member of the largest party) with forming a new government"
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"election results": {
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"text": "Issac HERZOG elected president; Knesset vote - Issac HERZOG (independent) 87, Miriam PERETZ (independent) 26, invalid/blank 7"
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"text": "<em>2021:</em> Issac HERZOG elected president; Knesset vote - Issac HERZOG (independent) 87, Miriam PERETZ (independent) 26, invalid/blank 7"
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"Political parties and leaders": {
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"text": "Blue and White [Benny GANTZ]<br>Joint Arab List [Ayman ODEH] (alliance includes Hadash, Ta’al, Balad)<br>Labor Party or HaAvoda [Merav MICHAELI]<br>Likud [Binyamin NETANYAHU]<br>Meretz [Zehava GAL-ON]<br>New Hope [Gideon SA'AR]<br>United Arab List [Mansour ABBAS]<br>Religious Zionist Party [Bezalel SMOTRICH, chairperson]<br>SHAS [Aryeh DERI]<br>United Torah Judaism or UTJ [Moshe GAFNI] (alliance includes Agudat Israel and Degel HaTorah)<br>Yamina [Ayelet SHAKED]<br>Yesh Atid [Yair LAPID]<br>Yisrael Beiteinu [Avigdor LIEBERMAN]"
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"text": "Blue and White [Benny GANTZ]<br>Joint Arab List [Ayman ODEH] (alliance includes Hadash, Ta’al, Balad)<br>Labor Party or HaAvoda [Merav MICHAELI]<br>Likud [Binyamin NETANYAHU]<br>Meretz [Zehava GAL-ON]<br>New Hope [Gideon SA'AR]<br>Religious Zionist Party [Bezalel SMOTRICH, chairperson]<br>SHAS [Aryeh DERI]<br>United Arab List [Mansour ABBAS]<br>United Torah Judaism or UTJ [Moshe GAFNI] (alliance includes Agudat Israel and Degel HaTorah)<br>Yamina [Ayelet SHAKED]<br>Yesh Atid [Yair LAPID]<br>Yisrael Beiteinu [Avigdor LIEBERMAN]"
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"text": "BIS, BSEC (observer), CE (observer), CERN, CICA, EBRD, FAO, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW (signatory), OSCE (partner), Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, SELEC (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
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"elections/appointments": {
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"text": "president indirectly elected by Council of Representatives (COR) to serve a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); COR election last held on 10 October 2021 (next to be held in 2025)"
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"text": "president indirectly elected by Council of Representatives (COR) to serve a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); COR parliamentary election last held on 10 October 2021 (next to be held in 2025)"
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"text": "<p><em>2018:</em> COR vote in first round - Barham SALIH (PUK) 165, Fuad HUSAYN (KDP) 90; Barham SALIH elected president in second round - Barham SALIH 219, Fuad HUSAYN 22; note - the COR vote on 1 October 2018 failed due to a lack of quorum, and a new session was held on 2 October<br><br><em>2014:</em> Fuad MASUM elected president; Council of Representatives vote - Fuad MASUM (PUK) 211, Barham SALIH (PUK) 17; Haydar al-ABADI (Da'wa Party) approved as prime minister</p>"
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"text": "<p><em>2018:</em> COR vote in first round - Barham SALIH (PUK) 165, Fuad HUSAYN (KDP) 90; Barham SALIH elected president in second round - Barham SALIH 219, Fuad HUSAYN 22; note - the COR vote on 1 October 2018 failed due to a lack of quorum, and a new session was held on 2 October 2018<br><br><em>2014:</em> Fuad MASUM elected president; Council of Representatives vote - Fuad MASUM (PUK) 211, Barham SALIH (PUK) 17; Haydar al-ABADI (Da'wa Party) approved as prime minister</p>"
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"text": "Al Fatah Alliance [Hadi al-AMIRI]<br>Azm Alliance [Khamis al-KHANJAR]<br>Babylon Movement [Rayan al-KILDANI]<br>Imtidad<br>Ishraqet Konoon [Jaafar AZIZ]<br>Kurdistan Democratic Party or KDP [Masoud BARZANI]<br>National Contract Alliance [Falih al-FAYYADH]<br>National State Forces Alliance [Ammar al-HAKIM]<br>National Wisdom Trend [Ammar al-HAKIM]<br>New Generation Movement or Naway Nwe [SHASWAR Abd al-Wahid Qadir]<br>Patriotic Union of Kurdistan or PUK [Bafel TALABANI]<br>State of Law Coalition [Nuri al-MALIKI]<br>The Sadrist Bloc [Muqtada al-SADR]<br>Taqadum or Progress Party [Muhammad al-HALBUSI]<br>Tasmin Alliance [Sarah al-SALIHI]<br>numerous smaller independent, religious, local, tribal, and minority parties"
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"text": "Al Fatah Alliance [Hadi al-AMIRI]<br>Azm Alliance [Khamis al-KHANJAR]<br>Babylon Movement [Rayan al-KILDANI]<br>Imtidad<br>Ishraqet Konoon [Jaafar AZIZ]<br>Kurdistan Democratic Party or KDP [Masoud BARZANI]<br>National Contract Alliance [Falih al-FAYYADH]<br>National State Forces Alliance [Ammar al-HAKIM]<br>National Wisdom Trend [Ammar al-HAKIM]<br>New Generation Movement or Naway Nwe [SHASWAR Abd al-Wahid Qadir]<br>Patriotic Union of Kurdistan or PUK [Bafel TALABANI]<br>Sadrist Movement [Muqtada al-SADR]<br>State of Law Coalition [Nuri al-MALIKI]<br>Taqadum or Progress Party [Muhammad al-HALBUSI]<br>Tasmin Alliance [Sarah al-SALIHI]<br><br>numerous smaller independent, religious, local, tribal, and minority parties"
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"text": "ABEDA, AFESD, AMF, CAEU, CICA, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer)"
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"text": "1,184,818 (displacement in central and northern Iraq since January 2014) (2022)"
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"text": "47,253 (mid-year 2021); note - in the 1970s and 1980s under SADDAM Husayn's regime, thousands of Iraq's Faili Kurds, followers of Shia Islam, were stripped of their Iraqi citizenship, had their property seized by the government, and many were deported; some Faili Kurds had their citizenship reinstated under the 2,006 Iraqi Nationality Law, but others lack the documentation to prove their Iraqi origins; some Palestinian refugees persecuted by the SADDAM regime remain stateless"
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> estimate revised to reflect the reduction of statelessness in line with Law 26 of 2006, which allows stateless persons to apply for nationality in certain circumstances; more accurate studies of statelessness in Iraq are pending (2015)"
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"text": "47,253 (mid-year 2021); note - in the 1970s and 1980s under SADDAM Husayn's regime, thousands of Iraq's Faili Kurds, followers of Shia Islam, were stripped of their Iraqi citizenship, had their property seized by the government, and many were deported; some Faili Kurds had their citizenship reinstated under the 2006 Iraqi Nationality Law, but others lack the documentation to prove their Iraqi origins; some Palestinian refugees persecuted by the SADDAM regime remain stateless"
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"text": "president indirectly elected by the National Assembly with two-thirds majority vote in the first round and if needed absolute majority vote in a second round for a 6-year term (eligible for non-consecutive terms); last held on 31 October 2016 (next to be held in 2022); prime minister appointed by the president in consultation with the National Assembly; deputy prime minister determined during cabinet formation"
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"text": "Michel AWN elected president in second round; National Assembly vote - Michel AWN (FPM) 83 votes; note - in the initial election held on 23 April 2014, no candidate received the required two-thirds vote, and subsequent attempts failed because the Assembly lacked the necessary quorum to hold a vote; the president was finally elected in its 46th attempt on 31 October 2016"
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"text": "<em>2016:</em> Michel AWN elected president in second round; National Assembly vote - Michel AWN (FPM) 83 votes; note - in the initial election held on 23 April 2014, no candidate received the required two-thirds vote, and subsequent attempts failed because the Assembly lacked the necessary quorum to hold a vote; the president was finally elected in its 46th attempt on 31 October 2016"
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"text": "King and Prime Minister SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (since 23 January 2015); Crown Prince MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (born 31 August 1985); note - the monarch is both chief of state and head of government"
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"text": "King SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (since 23 January 2015); Crown Prince MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (born 31 August 1985)"
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"text": "King and Prime Minister SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (since 23 January 2015); Crown Prince MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (born 31 August 1985)"
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"text": "Prime Minister Crown Prince MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (since 27 September 2022) (born 31 August 1985)"
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"text": "president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 7-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 26 May 2021 (next to be held in 2028); the president appoints the vice presidents, prime minister, and deputy prime ministers"
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"text": "Bashar al-ASAD elected president; percent of vote - Bashar al-ASAD (Ba'th Party) 95.2%, Mahmoud Ahmad MAREI (Democratic Arab Socialist Union) 3.3%, Abdullah Sallum ABDULLAH (Socialist Unionist Party) 1.5%"
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"text": "<em>2021: </em>Bashar al-ASAD elected president; percent of vote - Bashar al-ASAD (Ba'th Party) 95.2%, Mahmoud Ahmad MAREI (Democratic Arab Socialist Union) 3.3%, Abdullah Sallum ABDULLAH (Socialist Unionist Party) 1.5%"
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}
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},
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"Legislative branch": {
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"stateless persons": {
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"text": "160,000 (mid-year 2021); note - Syria's stateless population consists of Kurds and Palestinians; stateless persons are prevented from voting, owning land, holding certain jobs, receiving food subsidies or public healthcare, enrolling in public schools, or being legally married to Syrian citizens; in 1962, some 120,000 Syrian Kurds were stripped of their Syrian citizenship, rendering them and their descendants stateless; in 2011, the Syrian Government granted citizenship to thousands of Syrian Kurds as a means of appeasement; however, resolving the question of statelessness is not a priority given Syria's ongoing civil war"
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},
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the ongoing civil war has resulted in more than 5.6 million registered Syrian refugees - dispersed in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey - as of July 2022"
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> the ongoing civil war has resulted in more than 5.6 million registered Syrian refugees - dispersed mainly in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey - as of September 2022"
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},
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"Trafficking in persons": {
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"current situation": {
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"text": "871,537 (Palestinian refugees) (2020)"
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},
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"IDPs": {
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"text": "131,000 (includes persons displaced within the Gaza strip due to the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since June 2014 and other Palestinian IDPs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank who fled as long ago as 1967, although confirmed cumulative data do not go back beyond 2006) (2020)"
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},
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"note": "data represent Gaza Strip and West Bank"
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"text": "131,000 (includes persons displaced within the Gaza strip due to the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since June 2014 and other Palestinian IDPs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank who fled as long ago as 1967, although confirmed cumulative data do not go back beyond 2006) (2020); note - data represent Gaza Strip and West Bank"
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}
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}
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}
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}
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"text": "formerly, the president was directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 7-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 21 February 2012 (next election NA); note - a special election was held on 21 February 2012 to remove Ali Abdallah SALIH under the terms of a Gulf Cooperation Council-mediated deal during the political crisis of 2011; vice president appointed by the president; prime minister appointed by the president"
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},
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"election results": {
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"text": "in a special election held on 21 February 2012, Abd Rabuh Mansur HADI (GPC) was elected as a consensus president"
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"text": "<em>2012:</em> in a special election held on 21 February 2012, Abd Rabuh Mansur HADI (GPC) was elected as a consensus president"
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},
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"note": "<strong>note:</strong> on 7 April 2022, President Abd Rabuh Mansur HADI announced the dismissal of Vice President ALI MUHSIN al-Ahmar and the formation of a Presidential Council, an eight-member body chaired by former minister Rashad AL-ALIMI; on 19 April 2022, the Council was sworn in before Parliament and began assuming the responsibilities of the president and vice president and carrying out the political, security, and military duties of the government"
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},
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}
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},
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"Political parties and leaders": {
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"text": "General People’s Congress or GPC (3 factions: pro-Hadi [Abdrabbi Mansur HADI], pro-Houthi [Sadeq Ameen Abu RAS], pro-Saleh [Ahmed SALEH]<br>National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party [Qassem Salam SAID]<br>Nasserist Unionist People's Organization [Abdulmalik al-MEKHLAFI]<br>Southern Transitional Council or STC [Aidarus al-ZOUBAIDA] <br>Yemeni Reform Grouping or Islah [Muhammed Abdallah al-YADUMI]<br>Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Dr. Abd al-Rahman Umar al-SAQQAF]",
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"note": "("
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"text": "General People’s Congress or GPC (3 factions: pro-Hadi [Abdrabbi Mansur HADI], pro-Houthi [Sadeq Ameen Abu RAS], pro-Saleh [Ahmed SALEH]<br>Nasserist Unionist People's Organization [Abdulmalik al-MEKHLAFI]<br>National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party [Qassem Salam SAID]<br>Southern Transitional Council or STC [Aidarus al-ZOUBAIDA] <br>Yemeni Reform Grouping or Islah [Muhammed Abdallah al-YADUMI]<br>Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP [Dr. Abd al-Rahman Umar al-SAQQAF]"
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},
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"International organization participation": {
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"text": "AFESD, AMF, CAEU, CD, EITI (temporarily suspended), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAS, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSMA, MONUSCO, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMHA, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNVIM, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO"
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},
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"Refugees and internally displaced persons": {
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"refugees (country of origin)": {
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"text": "69,785 (Somalia), 18,153 (Ethiopia) (2022)"
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"text": "69,785 (Somalia), 18,687 (Ethiopia) (2022)"
|
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},
|
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"IDPs": {
|
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"text": "4,288,739 (conflict in Sa'ada Governorate; clashes between al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula and government forces) (2022)"
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