Article 7
In accordance with the command of the Qur'an contained in the
verse ("Their affairs are by consultations among them" [42:38]) and
("Consult them in affairs" [3:159]), consultative bodies - such as
the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the Provincial Councils, and the
City, Region, District, and Village Councils and the likes of them
- are the decision-making and administrative organs of the country.
The nature of each of these councils, together with the manner
of their formation, their jurisdiction, and scope of their duties
and functions, is determined by the Constitution and laws derived
from it.