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A Measure of Justice in Beirut
Quillette 30 Sep 2024
Its operatives and fighters, newly urbanised and in search of religious purpose, came to think of themselves as warriors in Ayatollah Khomenei’s wilayat al-faqih, a Shi’ite notion of ordained supremacy.
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Netanyahu’s all-out war
New Statesman 11 Sep 2024
And Netanyahu was there again ... [See also ... Hamas is Sunni, after all, and follows the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the Khomeinist doctrine of wilayat al-faqih – the Guardianship of the Jurisprudent, Iran’s system of Islamic government.
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As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
Live Mint 09 May 2024
The results of the shah’s last election were a triumph. His party won all 268 seats ... They all seem to agree that Iran’s wilayat al-faqih, or rule of the religious jurist, has run its course.© 2024, The Economist Newspaper Limited. All rights reserved.
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Saydet el Jabal demands liberation from Iranian occupation
LBC International 25 Mar 2024
Hezbollah names itself the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon and Iran—the Guardianship of the Jurist (Wilayat al-Faqih), which is the ideological and political reference for this party and the ...
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The Iranian project: Obstacles to integration and consequences for Arab nations
LBC International 11 Mar 2024
In the depths of Iranian revolutionary religious thinking, this expansion in the Shiite context, which raises the banner of Wilayat al-Faqih, has corrected a historical situation that cannot be reversed.
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‘Islamic resistance’ weaponizes Arab states against their people
Arab News 10 Mar 2024
How are Christians, Sunnis, Druze and other denominations supposed to freely exercise their religious and cultural freedoms under such a “wilayat al-faqih” theocracy?.
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Syrian Islamic Council Decries Sectarian Assaults: Attacks on Muslim Caliphs’ Tombs in Damascus Raise Alarms
Watan 31 Jan 2024
The statement emphasized that these sectarian practices take place in areas under the control of the ruling gang in Syria with its knowledge and complicity with the Wilayat al-Faqih system against Syria, its history, and its people.
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Khamenei casts his long shadow as Iran reaches a historic crossroads
The Hill 03 Jan 2024
Since 1989, the unwavering grip of Iran's Supreme Leader has cast a long shadow over the Middle East, surviving the terms of six U.S ... U.S ... The concept of Wilayat al-Faqih, central to this governance model, lacks any genuine legal or moral foundation.
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Understanding Israel’s war | Opinion
Sun Sentinel 07 Nov 2023
Central to this development was the adoption by Shi’a religious scholars of Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary doctrine Wilayat al-Faqih (Rule by the Just Jurist), which asserted that only senior ...
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What Do Iran’s Protests Mean for Iraq and the Kurdistan Region?
The Washington Institute 17 Jan 2023
... death of the current leading marja, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf ... Since the Iranian Revolution, the Qom marja have been a main pillar of the regime, wielding a political form of wilayat al-faqih.
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Iranian arms transfers through Beirut airport could ignite the Middle East
The Hill 22 Dec 2022
The Lebanese Shiites of Hezbollah follow the orders of Iran’s Supreme Leader under the principle of the guardianship of the jurist, Wilayat al-Faqih.
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We say to those expelled from their countries … welcome!
Arab Times 08 Dec 2022
In Iran, the Guardianship of the ...
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Post-Sudani government disasters foretold
The Arab Weekly 11 Nov 2022
The brigades of the Revolutionary Guards fleeing the Iranian people will flow in, to establish Iraq as a base from which to fight the new Iranian regime and the Wilayat al-Faqih will be established in Iraq.
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Iran needs organic transformation, not a West-backed regime change
Hindustan Times 19 Oct 2022
Much of the Muslim clergy including those from Khomeini’s fellow Shia sect disagreed with his to wilayat al-faqih, or the rule of the jurist theory, which has since 1979 vested a supreme leader with ...
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