They tried to seize an Islamic militant cell with links to radical clerics last Tuesday.
Known for his anti-American sentiments, Mr. Balegh recommended the release of hundreds of Taliban clerics this month.
But at times, the President can sound like a different man than the humble penitent who apologized to a roomful of clerics three weeks ago.
A special session of senior Afghan Islamic clerics was today to discuss the fate of US attack suspect Osama bin Laden.
A truce between the country's two main street gangs that was brokered by Roman Catholic clerics in 2012 resulted in a significant decline in the homicide rate.
For example, the Association of Muslim Scholars, the country's largest group of Sunni clerics, said last week that it had decided against taking part in the elections.
Baghi will test the temperature of the clerics again next month when he releases a paper that disavows Khomeini's interpretation of execution in the Koran.
He challenged senior clerics in 2006 by defying a ban on women going to stadiums to watch men play soccer, but eventually he had to back down.
Plans are being drawn up for the Pope to hold private meetings with people who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clerics during this week's visit to Britain.
The authority of a once-powerful Roman Catholic Church hierarchy was broken by the flight of conservative Catholics (including many clerics) in 1945, and religious practice was further vitiated by communism and the acceleration of industrialization and consumerism.
