theocracy
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But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Iran’s government is an explicit theocracy with the ayatollah, the supreme leader, maintaining both a religious and political role.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
They’re poignant reminders of a time in L.A.’s Westwood “Tehrangeles” neighborhood when, in the years just after the 1979 Iranian revolution, immigrants here made music while their homeland roiled with ascendant theocracy.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
But this does not constitute a really sacerdotal dominion, and the term theocracy is as little applicable to such an order of things, as to the Greek Patriarchate in the Turkish empire.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
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World Religions
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