How To Use Ayatollah In A Sentence
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The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship.
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When you hear the terms imam and ayatollah, these refer to Shiite religious leaders.
CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2006
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`So such a bridge was begun at last, under the old ayatollah president.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The former chief of the judiciary and close ally of Khamenei, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, was quoted Monday in Iranian newspapers as calling the postelection rifts a "family dispute" that can be worked out through dialogue.
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And to call the ayatollah's words lame propaganda ignores the fact that it is so effective in rallying our enemies.
"This defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation."
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Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran.
Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
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In my most recent link farm post, I posted a link to a story about Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani calling a fatwah against homosexuals.
Iraq: Maybe Sistani didn’t call for homosexuals to be killed, after all
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Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
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Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police.
The Stories Never Stop
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Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
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From the ranks of ayatollahs, who will already have their own followings among the theological students, five or six are chosen to become the Grand Ayatollahs who act as models to be imitated.
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The Obama administration publicly mourned the passing of Iran's Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, in an unusual move U.S. officials said was designed to align the White House with Iran's democratic movement.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 21, 2009
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Most dramatically, the position of the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , has been sorely undermined.
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The only leaders they recognised were the imams and ayatollahs.
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In Lebanon, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, once known as the spiritual leader of Hizbullah's suicide bombers, now counsels the faithful to respond to Western "aggressions" through cultural and legal means.
Christian Provocateurs and Muslim Moderation
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The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
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He said we were doing business with the government of Iran—in other words, the ayatollah himself—and that we were trading arms for hostages.
An American Life
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The president's mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, said Ahmadinejad is increasingly turning friends into enemies and demonstrating what he called "illogical and cheap" behavior.
The Seattle Times
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The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (ph), Iran's spiritual leader, inspects the troops, and then his message to the U.S. -- a formation designed as a sword pierces a Star of David, the American flag, and a swastika.
CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007
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At that time Khomeini's old friend grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari wrote a fatwa denouncing the events and for the first time used the term revolution using one of the verses of the Quran.
Negotiation with Iranian government, neglecting the Iranian people:
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Najaf is the seat of the Shi'ite's ayatollahs, or spiritual leaders.
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He said in an interview that he would never allow direct talks with the coalition, but said discussions were being led by Iraq's four leading Shiite ayatollahs.
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And the Ayatollah Sistani already gave a religious order that it is haram to do anything to those Ba'athists unless it is through the courts in Iraq.
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| Reply | Permalink pronouncng that name is not really a problem. achmed DEEN a jod will probably not be reelected in 2009; if we and iran are lucky, HA t'me will once again be pres. he's the one who made overtures to the bush administration following iran's helping us in afghanistan; such overtures summarily shot down, needless to say. but as roo, points out, the real name to know is ayatollah HA many. when will people wake up and realize god has no place in government!?!
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The highest real crude oil prices in recent memory were in 1979 after the ayatollahs seized power in Iran and the global price of crude oil peaked at around US $35 per barrel.
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She says the moderate ayatollahs of the religious establishment in Najaf are largely favorable to the US, but they do not want the occupation to drag on.
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We wait like small children to see if an aging Ayatollah will decide to evict us by force or moral suasion.
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At the same time a stream of visitors from Iran, including many clerics, are received by the ayatollah in his mud-brick home in downtown Najaf each day.
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The Ayatollah described the earthquake in Iran as a divine test.
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Lebanon's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, shot back that Qaradawi was trying to incite "fitna" - the word for internal civil strife among Muslims that is anathema to followers of Islam.
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His father was a well-known ayatollah - the top rank in the Shi'ite clerical hierarchy.
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Although you will often see his name prefaced with "dissident cleric," that does a great disservice to his more appropriate title, grand ayatollah - the highest rank achievable by Shia Muslim scholars - and the decades upon decades of study, thought, research, teaching and writing required to earn it.
CounterPunch
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Vilayet-i-faquih is the special term promulgated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to describe the idea that all of Iranian society is under the permanent stewardship (sometimes rendered as guardianship) of the mullahs.
'A Call to Prayer From the Rubble of the WTC'
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Believe that and you'll believe the Ayatollah's Mother Teresa's confessor.
BLACK EAGLES
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The Iranians are a god-fearing people and believe in an afterlife, and this is certainly true of the mullahs and ayatollahs who comprise their government.
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He's one of only five living Grand Ayatollahs and is Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric.
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'breakoff' of relations with Israel by Chavez accompanied by a hearty Bronx cheer from Iran's Supreme Ruler, Ayatollah Khamenei.
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The ayatollah warned Iran would be pitiless towards rabble-rousers.
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Ahmadinejad's program is reminiscent of the pronatalist policy Ayatollah Khomeini pursued following the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Nasim Novin: Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe?
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That's what Abdul Fostock has to deal with - his pappy is the ex-Tottenham Ayatollah, Omar Bakri Muhammad.
Londonist
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, speech on the political role of the clergy, in Islamic Unity Against Imperialism: Eight Documents of the Islamic Revolution in Iran New York: Islamic Association of Iranian Professionals and Merchants in America, 1981, p. 8, as quoted and cited in Abrahamian, Khomeinism, p.
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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The chief ayatollah of the Shiite Muslims in Iraq says he wants direct democratic elections to take place.
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The white-turbaned Shiite cleric, who has held several senior government positions since the 1979 Islamic revolution, said in an interview Tuesday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, along with the clerics and Revolutionary Guard commanders who support him, will be defeated by what he describes as a burgeoning movement of ordinary people, ayatollahs and lawmakers.
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After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
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The Ayatollah described the earthquake in Iran as a divine test.
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How does this differ, except by degree, from the message of the imams and ayatollahs that government exists not to carry out the will of the people, but the will of the prophet as they choose to interpret it?
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Two prominent antagonists were Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, representing hard-line clerical authority, and sociologist and activist Ali Shariati, representing, according to John Esposito, "a more nonclerical, innovative, creative reformist approach.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: Iran: One Revolution at a Time
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The Ayatollah described the earthquake in Iran as a divine test.
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The British government called in's ambassador to London to explain the Ayatollah's comments.
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And a prime example of this would be Iran … The ayatollah is both the religious leader and the political leader.
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In March 2010, when the president said "Faced with an extended hand, Iran's leaders have shown only a clenched fist," the ayatollah accused him of deceitfully offering a "metal hand inside a velvet glove.
It's Time to Bypass Iran's 'Supreme Leader'
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But Iran's judiciary chief , Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, said the Iraqi actedwell in approving the pact.
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It is no small irony that Iranian ayatollahs, ex-Communist Party leaders and former KGB honchos will vastly increase their influence in the region.
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Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri—the tufted-eared senior theologian whom Khomeini had called the “fruit of my life,” before he became an outspoken regime critic and finally spiritual mentor of the opposition—died in his sleep in December 2009, during the holy month of Moharram.
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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Prompting the walkout is the much anticipated and imminent announcement by the United Nations Tribunal doing the investigating of the killings of official indictments against Hezbollah terror operatives reporting directly to Hezbollah's Secretary General Sheikh Nasrallah -- Hezbollah's mini ayatollah and Iran's puppet agent provocateur.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Firestorm Among Lebanon's Cedars
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His successor, Ali Khamenei, also a fighter against the shah rather than a religious authority, was hastily "promoted" to the title ayatollah in order to become supreme leader.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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More broadly, the Shiites can use this provision to place their ayatollahs over the elected parliament, as in Iran, because they alone are authorized to determine the ‘rules’ of Islam.
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After more than a year of political struggle between different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote.
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The key decider during this period - as in the October Surprise phase - was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada.
Undefined
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Thanks to fiction I can, for example, kill an ayatollah, which is something you cannot do in real life," Nahapetian said at the "Semana Negra" crime-writing festival, attended by a million people every year in Gijon, northern Spain.
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In a common fallacy, however, many Sunnis tend to conflate Iraqi Shiite Islamists with the Iranian regime next door, even though the political ideology of Iraqi Shiites does not mesh with Ayatollah Khomeini's vilayet e-fakih (the guardianship of the jurist) and although ever since their return from exile in Iran in 2003, the Shiite Islamists have actively sought to shed whatever Iranian veneer they had acquired.
Iraq on the Edge
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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, indicated in a speech to Tehran University last Sunday that his country was not eager for an agreement now, in part because America's low status in the Middle East gives Iran an opportunity to achieve its dreams of regional dominance, pointing up "the might and the enduing grandeur of the Islamic System.
A Chanukah Miracle?
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A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing.
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The key decider during this period -- as in the October Surprise phase -- was Ayatollah Khomeini, who agreed with the pragmatists on the need to get as much materiel from the Americans and the Israelis as possible, Ben-Menashe said in an interview this week from his home in Canada.
Printing: Iran Divided & the 'October Surprise'
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Last week, a videodisc began circulating that reportedly shows the president chatting with one of the country's leading clerics, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli.
Religion Versus Reality
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From 1960 to 1970, Ayatollah Mohsen al-Hakim reigned supreme among the Shi'ites of Iraq, Iran and elsewhere.
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The ayatollah wields considerable influence among Shiites, who make up more than 60 percent of Iraq's 25 million people.
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The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council is thought be behind the hundreds of posters in Shiite areas of Baghdad bearing the image of the country's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in a move designed to use the name of the much revered cleric to attract voters.
Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence
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“Many of the humanities and liberal arts are based on philosophies whose foundations are materialism and disbelief in godly and Islamic teachings,” Ayatollah Khamenei said at a gathering of university students and professors on Sunday, according to IRNA, the state news agency.
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The Iranian-American moviemaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has brought his experience of TV documentaries to bear on the true story of an Iranian woman, Soraya M, framed as an adulterer by her husband in the early years of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran and stoned to death by her fellow villagers.
The Stoning of Soraya M – review
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The Iraqi Shias have produced a unity ticket for the elections under the direction of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the leading Iraqi Shia cleric.
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After all, fanatic ayatollahs and born-again Christians eager for the Rapture set no encouraging example.
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Will the Muslim Brotherhood Prove to Be Egypt's Version of Ayatollah Khomeini?
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That’s a pronouncement from a guy named Mohsen Gharavian, who works for Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, both of whom are outranked by Khameini.
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However the desperation of the Ulema in face of the "white" assault brings the formation of "penal battalions" led by former officers and we first meet Captain Rosencreuntz supervising a bridge demolition in face of relentless enemy attack, when he is arrested by religious commissary aka "Hojatoleslam" Nikita, beaten and thrown in a car trunk to be led to Ayatollah Commissar Barko for summary judgment.
"Escape From Byzantium" by Mark Mellon (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu and Mihir Wanchoo)
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Out of respect for his father and not wanting to increase the younger cleric's allure, the ayatollahs and other Shiite political groups have mostly remained silent in public about the situation.
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei described what he called the arrogant policies of the Bush administration.
CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2006
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The momentum against the "deviationist tendency" provided an ideal opportunity for Ayatollah Khamenei to assert his religio-political authority and remind all dissidents, present and future, as well as the common folk, who the undisputed single leader of the country was.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative
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The ayatollah was a strong critic of US policy in the Middle East
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The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran's spiritual leader, inspects the troops and then his message to the U.S. -- a formation designed as a sword pierces a Star of David, the American flag and swastika.
CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007
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Because we see, of course, in Iran, the ayatollahs have been in control now since the fall of the shah.
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Three of Najaf's four grand ayatollahs are from Iran.
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All the top imams and ayatollahs decided to meet on such religious questions to settle some urgent details of dogma.
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The same applies to Protestant and Orthodox Christian leaders, the Dalai Lama, the Muslim ayatollahs, Jewish rabbinical councils, and all other modern-day religious patriarchs.
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From 1960 to 1970, Ayatollah Mohsen al-Hakim reigned supreme among the Shi'ites of Iraq, Iran and elsewhere.
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It's really too bad that the Scopes Trial, and attendant religeous fervor, is relevant at all today, but we have "Intelligent (sic) Design" and "Creationism" being pushed on people by well-heeled manipulators like Ayatollah Robertson.
View from the Northern Border
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After all, fanatic ayatollahs and born-again Christians eager for the Rapture set no encouraging example.
