The announcement came despite the supreme military council's commitment to annul the law by September, which was a core demand of the revolution.
This indoctrination program has two basic goals, according to a groundbreaking 372-page report published last year by a U.N. commission of inquiry: to instill utmost loyalty and commitment toward the supreme leader, and to instill hostility and deep hatred toward the United States, Japan and South Korea.
Is there, perhaps, a quantitative difference---i.e., when the US is committing, say, less than 25,000 troops to a conflict, then that decision is an instrument of foreign policy where the President is supreme, but that at higher commitments that decision morphs into an exercise of warmaking powers that are split between the Congress and the Executive?
Speaking last week at a sport and cultural conference in Doha, Hassan al-Thawadi, secretary general of the Qatar 2022 supreme committee, reaffirmed the country's commitment to labour reforms.
But the underlying commitment must remain bipartisan supreme.
Nearly all of the many albums Coltrane recorded during the early 1960s rank as classics; A Love Supreme (1964), a deeply personal album reflecting his religious commitment, is regarded as especially fine work.
Behzad Nabavi, a reformist member of Parliament from Tehran, said the Guardians dismissed the candidates after deciding that they showed "a lack of commitment to the regime, the Constitution and the supreme leader".
Whitehead and Hartshorne share a commitment to the idea that God is the supreme creative power among many lesser creators.
Even more disheartening to international officials here, NATO governments are evidently weary of the commitment of men and money, with officials from the NATO supreme commander, Gen. Wesley Clark, to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright complaining bitterly that other countries are not keeping their commitments to supply personnel, police officers and funds.
The framers intended respect for international commitments, declaring U.S. treaties to be included in the "supreme law of the land".
