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theocratic

thee uh kra tik

  • a  of or relating to or being a theocracy
    a theocratic state

  • Since the Revolution of 1979, Iran has moved from a theocratic republic to a more democratic government AsiaSource.
  • I think people came to the ballot boxes to vote for their revolution, their state, and their Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, theocratic Iran's paramount politico-spiritual .
  • It was a massacrea premeditated murder of civilians by men possessed by a theocratic ideology.
News & Articles

  • Iranians mixed on religious figures in politics: poll
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Iran heads into presidential elections this week, Iranians have mixed views on political roles for religious figures but a large majority backs sharia law, according to a poll published on Tuesday. As part of the Pew Research Center poll that shows contradictions between republicanism and theocratic rule in Iran, 40 percent of Iranians said religious figures should play ...
    June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Xi Jinping in Thaindian.com
    Criticising Green Party co-leader Russel Norman's Tibetan flag protest in front of visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping, MP Raymond Huo, wrote: "What Westerners do not know, or do not want to know : is what level of cruelty the theocratic...
  • Condoleezza Rice in FOXNews
    Iranians voted in a presidential election over the weekend, but Rice said, "The appearance of elections does not mask the organized cruelty of Iran's theocratic state."
  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in Taipei Times
    We are not a secular state. We are also not a theocratic state like Iran and Pakistan ...... but we are a government that is based on parliamentary democracy,Abdullah told reporters after making a speech in the northern state of Penang.

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