Sentence examples for theocratic system from inspiring English sources

In the longer run, Iranians may conclude that the whole theocratic system might prove unworkable.

General Jafari has an established record of support for the theocratic system of government, and its hard-line policies.

However, the country's supreme leader - the most powerful figure in its theocratic system - is chosen by clerics.

Comstock has transformed this country's secular religion of Constitutionalism into a theocratic system of white supremacy that worships the founders as gods.

Over the past sixteen years, Shamsolvaezin has been jailed three times, in the infamous Evin Prison, on vague charges of challenging national security and weakening the theocratic system.

The theocratic system was carefully designed to balance Islamic rule with a semblance of democracy, of which the Assembly of Experts is a vital part.

U.S. officials, meanwhile, declined to deny a report in the Washington Times yesterday that the Obama administration last month sent a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Shiite cleric who oversees the government under Iran's quasi-theocratic system.

Yet even within Iran's theocratic governing system, Mr Ahmadinejad's decision to bring Shia Islam's most fundamental tenet into the political arena is deeply controversial.

The prophet Muhammad did not prescribe a theocratic political system.

Of course, beginning with a harsh theocratic governance system, Iranian support of Hezbollah and the vicious Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and its ambitions to dominate the Gulf.

A critic of Iran's "Velayet-e-Faqih" (rule of the jurisprudent) system of theocratic governance, Sistani's abstemious (aka Quietest school) approach to Shia politics has kept him well above the political fray while at the same time ensuring him significant impact on those rare occasions when he pronounces on politics.