Sentence examples for theocracy views from inspiring English sources
"There was a thesis a year ago that the differences between the United States and Iran was subject to diplomatic mediation, that they could find areas of common experience, that we were ready to have a dialogue with each other," Mr. Takeyh said, but "those anticipations discounted the extent how the Iranian theocracy views engagement with the United States as a threat to its ideological identity".
His lawyer, Ali Rahimi, said: "Iran is a theocracy – anything viewed as breaching Islamic rules and regulations would be interpreted as opposing the fundamental basis of the regime.
The business of both men, the Americans say, is defending a detested theocracy.Some evidence supports this view.
Mao's rule, he writes, "became a secular theocracy.... Divergence from Mao's views was heresy.... Dread and falsehood were thus both the result and the lifeblood of totalitarianism".
For the past three decades the Saudi monarchy, which sees itself as the guardian of Sunni Islam, has viewed Iran's Shiite theocracy as its nemesis.
Yes they wanted freedom of religion for themselves but they tried to impose a theocracy in America (Dr. Nick Rutt "How the Religious Right Views History -- And Why" Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 72.2/3 1989 528).
Almost comically, the position of conservatives on theocracy is strongly negative... when that theocracy is one of Islam of course.
His views on Iran (he once described Iran's theocracy as the "antithesis" of Ataturk's republic) will undoubtedly appeal to his hosts.
Brigham Young was governor of the Utah territory and president of the church.Utah is no theocracy now but, unlike most churches, Mormonism retains a distinctive view of the state which derives from theology.
It is not happy with the nuclear deal he negotiated with Western powers, and views the current president as a closet liberal who threatens Iran's theocracy.
