Direct democracy in Iran, comparative study of method and scope of execution of principle 59 of Islamic republic of Iran

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a democratic system, the legislation is carried out by the elected people's parliament. However, in very important cases, the parliament can relinquish certain matters related to its competence to a referendum. But, due to the religiousness of the government, there is a special supervision of sharia on the parliamentary decision and referendum that limits the scope of the people's decisions to the contrary than the licit democracies, and on the other hand, like other modern systems, the necessity of constitutional justice and problem of contrast of rules with the Constitution are also issued. In this article, the quality of the reference to the referendum and its constraints in the Islamic Republic of Iran as a religious democracy is studied, and its claim is that the form and content of the referendum in Article 59 of the Constitution in the area of religious law has the same limitations with the legislation of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, but in the other aspect, means the constitutional framework, some doubts can be raised