Islamic Republic facts
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has 16 active intelligence agencies working independent of one another making it difficult for a Coup D'etat or any government overthrow.
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People's Democratic Republic of Yemen was a communist state that existed from 1990-1994 where religion was repressed, Islamic scholars were abducted and killed, women went about uncovered and alcohol was sold in the streets.
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The Republic of Kalmykia (today part of Russia) has transitioned over the past ~1200 years from: paganism -> Judaism -> Islam -> Tengriism (Mongol religion) -> Islam -> and then Buddhism (since 1600's).
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan lays claim over a district in India that is 66% Buddhist and has been practicing Buddhism for 2000 years.
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171 women and 4 transgender candidates will be contesting on a total of 272 national assembly seats in the 2018 general elections in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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Opposition to homosexuality in China originates in the medieval Tang Dynasty (618–907), attributed to the rising influence of Christian and Islamic values, but did not become fully established until the Westernization efforts of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
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The last official Islamic Caliphate was the Ottoman Empire. It lasted from 1362 to 1924 when Mustafa Kemal implemented secular reforms and exiled the royal Osmanoğlu family from the Republic of Turkey and abolished the caliphal position.
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Pre-revolutionary Iran held a democratic referendum on whether or not to make Iran an "Islamic Republic": more than 99% of the people answered yes.
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Iran performs more sex change operations than any other country except Thailand. The Islamic Republic treats homosexuality as a sin and transsexuality as a medical condition that can be cured through state-sanctioned surgery.
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On May 28, 1998, Islamic Republic of Pakistan carried out 5 nuclear tests in Balochistan
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In less than 40 years France will become an Islamic Republic due to immigration
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan issues national identity cards with a "third gender" category for non-binary citizens.
Despite contraceptives being frowned upon in Islam, in 2001, the Islamic Republic of Iran had a condom factory that produced more than 70 million condoms a year, "packaged in French or English to suggest that they [were] imported." - source
Although portraits of the prophet Muhammad are infamously contentious in much of the Muslim world, they are fairly common in the Islamic Republic of Iran the form of murals and postcards - source
Khomeini's (father of Islamic republic of Iran) ancestors had migrated to Kingdom of Awadh(modern day Uttar Pradesh, India). His grandfather eventually went back to Iran and until Khomeini's father's generation, the family used to be known as 'Hindi' - literally meaning of/from India.
