theocracy
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But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 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
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
We might use the term theocracy, although it's a little more complicated than that.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2024
But in the now ordinary acceptation of the term, which implies a sacerdotal empire or dominion, the Jewish state was at no time and by no means a theocracy.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
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World Religions
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