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Grand Ayatollahs Hassan Sanei and Asadollah Bayat have declared the regime's founding principle of wilayat al-faqih clerical rule to be "contrary to Islam."
Iran's Green Movement Lives Amir Taheri 2011
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She opposed wilayat al-faqih, the doctrine of absolute rule by the clergy that is applied in Iran.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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She opposed wilayat al-faqih, the doctrine of absolute rule by the clergy that is applied in Iran.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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But they constantly clashed with their Iranian hosts over issues of ideology for one thing, Dawa refused to accept velayat al-faqih, the Iranian model that places government under clerical rule and tactics.
Al Eisele: Iraq: The Forgotten War Al Eisele 2010
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But they constantly clashed with their Iranian hosts over issues of ideology for one thing, Dawa refused to accept velayat al-faqih, the Iranian model that places government under clerical rule and tactics.
Al Eisele: Iraq: The Forgotten War Al Eisele 2010
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But they constantly clashed with their Iranian hosts over issues of ideology for one thing, Dawa refused to accept velayat al-faqih, the Iranian model that places government under clerical rule and tactics.
Al Eisele: Iraq: The Forgotten War Al Eisele 2010
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But they constantly clashed with their Iranian hosts over issues of ideology for one thing, Dawa refused to accept velayat al-faqih, the Iranian model that places government under clerical rule and tactics.
Al Eisele: Iraq: The Forgotten War Al Eisele 2010
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But they constantly clashed with their Iranian hosts over issues of ideology for one thing, Dawa refused to accept velayat al-faqih, the Iranian model that places government under clerical rule and tactics.
Al Eisele: Iraq: The Forgotten War Al Eisele 2010
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But they constantly clashed with their Iranian hosts over issues of ideology for one thing, Dawa refused to accept velayat al-faqih, the Iranian model that places government under clerical rule and tactics.
Al Eisele: Iraq: The Forgotten War Al Eisele 2010
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Notably, the so-called "spiritual leader" of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, is also known to have not supported the notions of the wilayat al-faqih.
Joshua Gleis: Religious Divisions in Iran's Leadership -- More than Meets the Eye 2009
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