shura-based systems from the viewpoint of ayatollah taleghani

having a deep underestanding of despotism, ayatollah taleghani developed a shura-based system to secure the rights and the political participation of people. shura, including rural councils, provincial councils, and the islamic consultative assembly, is religiously based on traditions and quranic verses which allow the people to proceed towards high humanitarian and social goals. to compare shura with parliamentarian systems, it can be said that in the parliamentarian systems they are the powerful groups that rule, but in the shura-based models the shura secures the presence of the people in the social arena and their political participation.