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  • noun Plural form of mullah.

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  • Among other things, you say, there should be support for overthrowing what you call the mullahs in Iran; ending what you call a terrorist regime in Syria; regarding Saudi Arabia and France not necessarily as rivals but maybe even enemies; and enforcing a blockade around North Korea.

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2004 2004

  • The mullahs are a bit preoccupied right now, as is the Guard no doubt.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Helping the Iranian Protestors: 2009

  • Regardless of whether the mullahs are our cup of tea, Iran has never invaded a neighbor in 200 years.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2009 2009

  • GERGES: Regardless of we think of the mullahs, regardless of whether the mullahs are our cup of tea, Iran has never invaded a neighbor in 200 years.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2009 2009

  • Americans and Europeans can seem to Israelis all-too-nonchalant about the challenge they face -- and Western counsel to calm down and get used to the idea of mullahs with nukes doesn't sit well with a people who have already lived through the unthinkable.

    Netanyahu and Obama Have a Shared Interest in Iran 2009

  • Weakening the mullahs is the best defense against an Iranian bomb.

    Engaging Iran on Human Rights Alexander Benard 2009

  • My guess is that all of the snickering in the national media has caused the mullahs aka city officials to play a mulligan.

    A trace of ass cleavage: obscene in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Ann Althouse 2008

  • And even if "freedom" were somehow to come to Tehran, it is almost certain that free Iranians would be as enthusiastic as the mullahs are about possessing nuclear weapons owing to the political popularity of these weapons and their strategic rationale given Iran's neighborhood.

    January 2005 2005

  • Feel free to continue into the comments, where some readers take issue with Quraishi, and I relay some of her responses and note that she likened muftis whom I initially mistakenly call mullahs to law professors.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • Unlike you're ridiculous, illigitimate regime that has been continually corrupt, your so called mullahs know how much they have stolen from Persia.

    latimes.com - News 2011

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