Rouhani is a governmental insider; his loyalty lies with Khomeini and Khamenei, he is a benefiter of the cleric system, and was approved by the Guardian Council to run for presidency.
However, they are national governmental staff and their loyalty remains with the central government.
Leaders have no incentive to perform well, Collier explains, if voters cast ballots according to ethnic loyalty rather than governmental competence.
Namely, that after decades and even centuries, of entrenched governmental support for carbon incumbents, particularly oil & gas, loyalties are under pressure.
Not all of them, McLaughlin said, straining to be diplomatic, "possess strong governmental or financial or programmatic experience on top of their incredible loyalty to the Red Cross".
They seek to promote a sense of duty rather than affection for the idea of the nation, and compliance with the prevailing governmental narrative rather than freedom for each citizen to interpret national loyalty in her own way.
Its Jewish and Palestinian citizens find their rights circumscribed by proposed loyalty oaths, parliamentary investigations of nongovernmental organizations critical of the governmental line, and imprisonment of activists standing in solidarity with nonviolent Palestinian protestors in the occupied West Bank.
What too many fail to realize, consumed as they are with partisan politics and blinded by their own political loyalties, is that the massive bureaucracies--now computerized--that administer governmental policy transcend which party occupies the White House.
But dividing its allegiances between matters (very) domestic and (very) international, "Loyalty" succeeds neither as a portrait of a marriage nor as an uncompromising look into governmental backrooms.
As journalists routinely remind governmental and corporate figures, disclosure matters when circumstances mean that a person can reasonably be regarded as having conflicting loyalties.
