theocracy
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But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
She added that her family was happy, but that they expected the collapse of the theocracy to take a longer time.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
But I also don’t think it’s going to be a theocracy anymore.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
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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