| 单词 | theocracy |
| 例句 | Given “a choice between a demonic theocracy and an amoral nihilism,” Mr. Kuz writes, “Dostoyevsky favored the first, whereas, his Western admirers — like Woody Allen often decided to opt for the second.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z And with Trump in the White House, “Birthright” director Civia Tamarkin warns of a possible totalitarian theocracy reminiscent of “A Handmaid’s Tale.” This documentary shows how close we are to a real-life “Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z In late September, protests erupted across Iran as tens of thousands of people, led by women and girls, demanded liberation from the Islamic Republic’s theocracy. ‘Baraye,’ the Anthem of Iran’s Protest Movement, Wins a Grammy 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z When a pastor in Bethlehem explains to Bingham IV that his donations support a theocracy that makes Palestinian Christians second-class citizens, Bingham simply insists that it’s all part of God’s plan. ‘’Til Kingdom Come’ Review: An Unusual Religious Bond 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Even as the Puritans were striving to build an austere theocracy in New England, they were defied by a character named Thomas Morton, whose Merry Mount colonists disported themselves in free-spirited revelry. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z I don't want to live in a Christian theocracy or a Muslim theocracy or any theocracy. "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Well, Soviet Russia was, in all respects except one, a theocracy. Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z He is less impressed by Justice Scalia’s jurisprudence, which he finds to be nakedly partisan and overly informed by religious stricture, nearly to the extent that the justice would have us live in a theocracy. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Neshat believes the backlash against the west that the coup unleashed began the chain of events that led to the Iranian revolution and the present theocracy. Shirin Neshat: A long way from home 2010-06-13T21:01:00Z Yet unbeknownst to friends, she was wrestling with Islam, a struggle brought on, in part, by the rise of an Iranian theocracy that suppressed women’s rights. Daisy Khan, an Eloquent Face of Islam 2010-11-15T19:12:00Z His followers, as expositors of God’s word, arrogated immense powers to themselves; in 1979 one of them, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, turned Iran into a theocracy. Powers of persuasion 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z A TV show set in a fundamentalist theocracy where women and minorities are stripped of all rights and children are ripped from their mothers’ arms doesn’t seem like a natural hit. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Then I played a brief clip from the 1990 movie version of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and we moved on to discussing theocracies, America’s Puritan roots and anxiety and obsession over the female body. Why I banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” — and why we need it more than ever 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z And regardless of how or even if we Americans worship, we didn’t sign up for a theocracy here. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z The Canadians, who are quite diverse, might not be able to gain the critical mass required to attain a monolithic theocracy. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Moayed was born in 1980, the year after the Iranian Revolution ousted a secular, autocratic government and ushered in a theocracy. Arian Moayed Plays Creepy Men for Thoughtful Reasons 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Over the following twenty years, Calvin managed to transform Geneva into a strict theocracy in which no individual action was beyond the scope of religious oversight or censure. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z That paranoia bleeds into modern Iran, where its theocracy now finds itself targeted in attacks over its accelerating nuclear program but also has the tendency to blame all its woes on conspirators abroad. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z That, despite your best attempts, this isn’t a theocracy? Is the Catholic church even trying to make sense on marriage equality? 2013-05-09T14:49:00Z It’s easy to see why the repressive theocracy in Iran took exception to this movie. ‘Chess of the Wind’ Review: A Remnant of an Iran That Used to Be 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z This is a theocracy driven by human sacrifice. Aida 2010-04-28T20:30:00Z Ms. Dowd, 65, perhaps best known for playing Aunt Lydia, a brutal enforcer of the theocracy on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” grew up boating. Ann Dowd Sails Around New York Harbor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Williams was hardly alone in arguing that “we didn’t sign up for a theocracy.” Should atheists fight for religion in government? 2013-04-16T18:50:00Z Imagine the racist theocracies some of our country’s worst governors would establish if they weren’t restrained by federal oversight. Of course Bernie Sanders endorsed this novel about a rebel in Vermont 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The Ayatollah's subsequent 10-year theocracy was not the medieval throwback so often portrayed in the west, however. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z His time at Brigham Young was Romney’s first experience living in Utah, which Mormons run as a sort of soft theocracy. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z “The many forms of militancy — from the venomous Sunni creed of Al Qaeda to the punitive Shiite theocracy in Iran — have proven costly, unproductive and ultimately unappealing.” Books of The Times: Upheaval and Hope in a Land of Turmoil 2011-08-01T23:00:10Z The theocracy that rules the galaxy wishes to discover the secret keeping Grass safe from disease. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z David McVicar's production of Aida famously removes Verdi's tragedy from ancient Egypt and relocates it to an unspecified primitive theocracy predicated on human sacrifice and territorial war. Aida - review 2011-03-13T14:55:38Z Social Democratic Sweden struck me even at the time as a theocracy organised around the worship of itself, and the official ideology was atheist. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z In the new book, you delve into what life is like under the Magisterium, the "theocracy" that rules Britain. Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “We didn’t get rid of a military regime to replace it with a fascist theocracy.” 14 protest videos that went viral and changed the world 2014-02-25T14:00:00Z Could this be a retreat into theocracy, rather than an expansion of democratic values? The Fes festival resonates in the real world 2012-06-26T07:30:02Z Her novel envisions an alternate U.S. — one in which the country broke apart and the vast majority of the South seceded in 1945, establishing a patriarchal theocracy that lasted for decades. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Inevitably, the details are less shocking — at least in part because the horrors of Gilead’s male-centered theocracy are already so well known. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But irony is something that gets lost in translation from the satirists in a democracy to the enforcers in a theocracy. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In many ways it seems as much like Soviet Russia, as historical theocracies like the Spanish Inquisition. Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The United States, an Afghan-style hodgepodge of theocracies, white-supremacist refuges and fundamentalist militia zones, is a cultural backwater while the Middle East is a sophisticated global superpower. 'The Mirage': Matt Ruff's novel of 9/11 role reversal 2012-02-02T21:03:04Z A show that began four seasons ago as an exploration of life under a fictional patriarchal theocracy now, in Season 4 — premiering Wednesday on Hulu — sometimes feels more like an extended game of Bad-Libs: Perspective | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ used to feel provocative. Now it’s just exhausting. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z And theocracy, which seemed like such a strange and distant idea to me, is in fact a reality in a lot of the world right now. “Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But the revolution that ousted the shah and installed a Shiite theocracy later silenced her — the clerics banned pop music and female performances. Iranian pop star Googoosh wows Dubai despite Tehran’s outcry 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The “Handmaid’s Tale” series, in which the United States has become a theocracy and women are subjugated, was criticized for eliding issues of race in its fictional society and featuring a largely white cast. ‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It gives a history of the murderous revolutionary theocracy, including an account of the rarely discussed mass execution of imprisoned communists and atheists in 1988. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z The Church became the all-powerful theocracy ruling over walled cities scattered across a "Mad Max" wasteland. 'Priest': Heaven help us 2011-05-13T16:47:04Z You almost have to believe that this is a theocracy to think that way, to think that public policy should be dictated by the teachings of Jesus. Jerry Falwell Jr. can’t imagine Trump ‘doing anything that’s not good for the country’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Just think of it: Here is a woman who was raised in a condition of medieval theocracy in Somalia and subjected to FGM. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z As we imagine Comic Book Guy might say: worst cultural ban by an Islamic theocracy ever. ArtsBeat: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children? 'Simpsons' Toys Banned in Iran 2012-02-06T17:25:58Z Many in the Taliban speak, as some conservative Christians do in America, of returning to the mythical origins of a restrictive theocracy where students only learn narrow interpretations of religious texts. “If we did not protest, no one would punish those men”: A brutal murder, a sham trial, and justice denied in Kabul 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He was right to be worried, of course, though his reporting got him into trouble back home in France, where he was denounced as an apologist for the nascent Iranian theocracy. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z She imagined what she called “the heavy-handed theocracy of 17th-century Puritan New England — with its marked bias against women” — reasserting itself during a period of social chaos. The Handmaid’s Thriller: In ‘The Testaments,’ There’s a Spy in Gilead 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z At the same time, the country was politically volatile, swinging from democracy to monarchy to theocracy, with the atmosphere for art changing accordingly. Art Review: Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery 2013-09-05T21:50:26Z The South has become a tyrannical theocracy: Women wear long dresses, the radio plays only church hymns. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z You won’t find greedy televangelists or much about militant theocracies here. Review: ‘Sacred,’ a Global Group Portrait of Faith in Action 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Imagine two nightmarish worlds — each a combination of police state and theocracy — in which doomed characters struggle against capricious bureaucracies and baffling customs. ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Yes, we need to continually fight for the freedom from theocracy, especially as more and more of us are declaring ourselves unaffiliated with any faith. Can Christians get along with America? 2013-06-07T19:45:00Z The Louisiana Republican wants to nullify the Constitution in order to make America into a White Christian theocracy. Mike Johnson's "biblical” economics: Using Christian nationalism to "enhance plutocratic wealth" 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The decision by Mohammadi, 51, increases pressure on Iran’s theocracy over her incarceration, a month after being awarded the Nobel for her years of activism despite a decadeslong campaign by the government targeting her. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi goes on a hunger strike while imprisoned in Iran 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z They’ve renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven’t read much of it. MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson is a Biblical literalist, an unapologetic Christofascist who wants to impose a White Christian theocracy on American society. Republicans manufactured a "crisis" — now they are ready to exploit it 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z They also demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations’ fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy’s use of pressure on victims’ families and state TV’s history of airing hundreds of coerced confessions. Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy is an enemy of Israel and has long positioned itself as the primary regional rival of Saudi Arabia. Biden says Hamas attacked Israel in part to stop a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z The comments by Hossein Amirabdollahian follow a pattern of escalating rhetoric from Iran, whose theocracy provides support to Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Live updates | Aid for Gaza stuck at border as Israeli siege persists and Biden plans trip to region 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z So whether it is a possible world war, stochastic terrorism, Christian theocracy, climate change, Donald Trump, our own government or something else unforeseen, for most people it is a time of trepidation and terror. MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy is a main sponsor of Hamas in its fight against Israel, Tehran’s regional archenemy. Live: Live updates | Day 10 of the latest Israel-Hamas war 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The Shiite Muslim theocracy is an enemy of Israel and has long positioned itself as the primary regional rival of the Sunni Muslim monarchy ruling Saudi Arabia. Hamas clash throws U.S. regional diplomacy into question 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z It still fuels the anti-Americanism that colors decisions made by the theocracy, whether in arming Russia in its war on Ukraine or alleging without evidence that Washington fomented the recent nationwide mass protests targeting it. CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits ‘Argo’ rescue 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Bravely, she seeks an end to the Iranian theocracy that represses its own people and, to distract from its own weaknesses, sows such chaos. To fight despair about Gaza, reflect on Nobel Prize winner's bravery | Editorial 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z They demand an independent investigation by the United Nations’ fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy’s use of pressure on victims’ families and state TV’s history of airing hundreds of coerced confessions. Mysterious injury of 16-year-old Iranian girl not wearing a headscarf in Tehran’s Metro sparks anger 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z That sparked one of the most intense challenges ever to Iran’s theocracy. Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women’s oppression 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z That sparked one of the most intense challenges ever to Iran’s theocracy since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting the oppression of women in Iran 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “We live in America, but this feels like a theocracy.” As Muslims’ status as political punching bag fades, some are fighting against LGBTQ+ acceptance 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Her death in custody ignited months of protests in which many called for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy. Iran’s parliament passes a stricter headscarf law days after protest anniversary 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Her death triggered protests that spread across the country and rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s four-decade-old Islamic theocracy. Activists in Europe mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z The protests that ensued represented one of the largest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. House passes bipartisan measures targeting Iran over death of Mahsa Amini, missile program 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z As detailed by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons in a new essay at MSNBC, Trump's second regime will also be a White Christian theocracy. Time for Judge Chutkan to put a stop to Trump's antics 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf law and tamp down on any possibility of more unrest. In Iran, snap checkpoints and university purges mark the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini protests 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z The new investor "brings confidence and value," Telefonica's main trade union UGT conceded on Thursday, but it worried about growing influence of sovereign funds from theocracies. Focus: How the Saudis became a top shareholder in Telefonica, Spain's telecoms giant 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z It also lit the fuse for the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which saw the fatally ill shah flee Iran and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini usher in the theocracy that still governs the country. A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The protests marked one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran sentences 8 to prison over paramilitary’s death during last year’s nationwide protests 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy, meanwhile, views itself as the protector of Islam’s Shiite minority. Iran’s foreign minister visits Saudi Arabia on first such trip in years as tensions ease 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Additionally, the aging patriarch, hoarding his family’s wealth and forcing them into squalor for a chance at personal glory, can be seen as an allegory to Iran’s theocracy. Iranian filmmaker and his producer face prison for showing film at Cannes without state permission 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z They were commemorating Ashura, Shia Islam’s most sacred ritual, showcased annually with great fanfare in Iran as a testament to the Shiite theocracy’s power and strength. A Religious Ritual in Iran Becomes a New Form of Protest 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Khamenei told members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that Washington had planned to overthrow the country’s theocracy through a coup like in 1953 through its military. A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z TEHRAN, Iran — For months, Iranian authorities did little to enforce the law on women covering their hair but now the country’s theocracy is pushing to make businesses the new battleground over the mandatory headscarf. A year ago, an Iranian woman’s death sparked hijab protests. Now businesses are a new battleground 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, politicians known in Iran as reformists have seized on the hijab dispute as they seek to changes Iran’s theocracy from within the system. A year ago, an Iranian woman’s death sparked hijab protests. Now businesses are a new battleground 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Her family has used its wealth to promote a conservative Judeo-Christian theocracy in the schools and the government for decades. 'School choice' was doomed when it became a cover for segregation | LZ Granderson 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z For hard-liners in Tehran’s theocracy, the move projects power to surrounding nations as part of a wave of assaults attributed to Iran since 2019. Analysis: Buildup of American forces in Persian Gulf a new signal of worsening US-Iran conflict 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z During her reign in the early 1990s, the artist positioned herself at the forefront of cultural scandals, frequently lamenting growing up in Ireland’s “theocracy” and abuses in the Catholic Church. Grammy winner Sinéad O'Connor has died 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The protests, in which women played a leading role, quickly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy, which took power after the 1979 revolution. Iran targets e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves in new crackdown 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Trump figured out in 2016 that the primary voters are addicted to politically traumatic mythologies and revisionist history, centered upon gays/sex/marriage/male/Caucasian/Christian theocracy, guns, Obama/racial animus, hysteria, paranoia, and COVID. Trump's revenge fantasies are real life 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z In another verse, he predicts the downfall of Iran’s theocracy. Iran sentences rapper to more than 6 years in prison over protests, supporters say 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z For the sake of American girls everywhere, we must call this push for so-called Parent's Rights what it is: far-right authoritarian theocracy. Call the push for so-called Parent’s Rights what it is: far-right authoritarian theocracy 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Over the last few months, the kingdom has restored relations with Iran’s theocracy and Syria’s President Bashar Assad - both seen as pariahs in the West. Saudi Arabia welcomes Venezuelan leader Maduro, reaching out to yet another U.S. foe 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z While the demonstrations appear to have cooled, the choice by some women not to cover their hair in public poses a new challenge to the country’s theocracy. As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z “I think that there is a sense that Iran is increasingly desperate. And when we know authoritarian theocracies are desperate, they often turn to very, very extreme acts.” Iran hangs 2 in rare blasphemy case as executions surge 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The protests, which reportedly saw over 500 people and 19,000 others arrested, marked one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran hangs 2 in rare blasphemy case as executions surge 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z This perverse power grab insults the valiant struggles of 75 years of judicious leadership, belying Israel’s role as the sole democracy amid regional theocracies, military juntas and petro-dictatorships. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Beijing promotes a narrative where it freed "serfs and slaves" from a brutal theocracy, set Tibet on a path of modernisation, and vastly improved Tibetans' lives. China: Dalai Lama furore reignites Tibet 'slave' controversy 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Those protests, which mark one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 revolution, have continued for months. New caucus in Congress condemns poisoning of Iranian girls 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The protests, which reportedly saw over 500 people killed and 19,000 others arrested, marked one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran hangs 2 in rare blasphemy case as executions surge 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z While president, Trump enacted a range of policies that furthered the creation of a white Christofascist theocracy in America. Treating Trump like Jesus: Indictment proves MAGA is a cult 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Holding a replica of the National Monument to the Forefathers at Plymouth, Mass., Cameron delivered a brief homily about America as a once and future theocracy. Perspective | Kirk Cameron and Sean Spicer’s dubious quest to ‘win back Story Hour’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The state of Kentucky stands alone, having refused the Southern theocracy’s alcohol ban. Review | ‘Biography of X’ is a brilliant novel that remixes art and history 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The protests mark one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 revolution. Biden pays tribute to Iranian women at Nowruz celebration 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Sunni Gulf monarchies feared that Iran would export its brand of Shiite theocracy across a region traditionally ruled by Sunnis. In the U.S.-Led Iraq War, Iran Was the Big Winner 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Reading about the six-month anniversary of Amini’s death this week, I was struck by the consistencies in Iran’s crackdown on women and recent developments in a budding theocracy of our own, known as South Carolina. Opinion | Women who have abortions may be headed to prison — or worse 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z His only recent destination that does not fall into this category is Iran, which he visited in July last year to meet the theocracy's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Will Vladimir Putin ever face a war crimes trial? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Appalled by the South’s racist brutality, she remains sympathetic to the simple need for belief that its theocracy fills. Review | ‘Biography of X’ is a brilliant novel that remixes art and history 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z It also suggests that Iran’s theocracy now feels secure enough to admit the scale of the unrest, which represented one of the most-serious challenges to the establishment since the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran says 22,000 arrested in protests pardoned by top leader 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z In Iran, protesters are fighting against the theocracy and restrictions on their human rights. Fearmongering diverts attention from real threats of gender oppression 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Some of those remarks have appeared aimed at shoring up domestic support amid the mass protests challenging Iran’s theocracy and supporting the country’s troubled rial currency. Iran’s top diplomat claims prisoner swap near with US 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Iran’s government in February celebrated the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which brought a Shiite theocracy to power. US sanctions Iranian officials over women’s right abuses 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The hard-line Kayhan newspaper in an editorial had called for the arrests of newspaper publishers who printed articles on the crisis critical of Iran’s theocracy. Iran’s top leader says suspected poisonings ‘unforgivable’ 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z While mass demonstrations have cooled in recent weeks, nightly chants against Iran’s theocracy can still be heard in some neighborhoods of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Iran says 22,000 arrested in protests pardoned by top leader 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But even here, some are quietly calling for Iran’s ruling theocracy to change its ways after months of protests shaking the country. Calls for change in Iran reach even Shiite heartland of Qom 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The implication was that the Islamist movement had learned from experience and would not reimpose a repressive theocracy such as the one it operated during its previous reign from 1996 to 2001. Opinion | The Taliban’s campaign against women continues. Don’t look away. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The country’s theocracy has executed at least four men since the demonstrations began in September over the death of Mahsa Amini. China, Iran call on Afghanistan to end restrictions on women 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The ads were sponsored by an anonymous group of "Christian" big money funders who de facto want to turn the country into a White Christian theocracy. Church at the Super Bowl: Football, Jesus and fascism 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Later in April, Iranians voted to become an Islamic Republic, a Shiite theocracy with Khomeini as the country’s first supreme leader, with final say on all matters of state. Iran marks anniversary of Islamic Revolution amid protests 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z The lyrics list reasons young Iranians have posted on Twitter for why they had protested against Iran’s ruling theocracy. Iran singer who faces prison wins Grammy for protest anthem 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It remains unlikely Iran’s theocracy will heed the 80-year-old politician’s call. Iran acknowledges ‘tens of thousands’ detained in protests 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z He’s among a number of Iranian artists, sports figures and other celebrities who have been detained after speaking out against Iran’s theocracy. Iranian film director goes on hunger strike in prison 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z While the man who allegedly orchestrated the plot lives in Iran, the indictment does not directly blame the country’s theocracy for being behind the alleged murder-for-hire plot. U.S. charges 3 in plot to kill Iranian-American author in NYC 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The protests mark one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 revolution — and the reaction from the government has been severe. House commends Iranian protesters in bipartisan vote 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The protests by Iranians from all walks of life mark one of the boldest challenges to the ruling theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. U.S., EU, UK impose new sanctions on Iran over protest crackdown 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z However, he himself had supported and served in Iran’s theocracy for decades. Iran acknowledges ‘tens of thousands’ detained in protests 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The movement has become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s Shiite theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. EU plans more Iran sanctions but won’t list guard corps 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The protests quickly escalated into calls for the overthrow of the theocracy and mark one of the biggest challenges it has faced in more than four decades. EU assembly wants Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on terror list 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z House overwhelmingly approved a resolution Wednesday expressing solidarity with people in Iran who have been risking imprisonment and even death to protest against the country’s theocracy. House commends Iranian protesters in bipartisan vote 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z A number of signatories said the Jan. 6 attack has raised the stakes for opposing anything inclined toward theocracy or white Christian nationalism. Black, LGBTQ+, and religious groups ask Biden to drop the National Prayer Breakfast 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z She was referring to a monthslong wave of protests in Iran challenging the country’s ruling theocracy. Golden Globes fashion: Stars return for soggy carpet 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s Shiite theocracy since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Pope denounces Iran death penalty following protests 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The protests mark one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran executes 2 more men detained amid nationwide protests 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Despite its violent efforts at suppression, Iran’s theocracy is still challenged by a woman-led democratic movement. Opinion | Zelensky’s visit highlights that freedom is winning in Ukraine — for now 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Capitol and mounting awareness of white Christian nationalism has also swelled the ranks of those willing to call out proponents of theocracy, even those clad in benign vestments. Black, LGBTQ+, and religious groups ask Biden to drop the National Prayer Breakfast 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Her death sparked three months of women-led protests, still ongoing, that have rocked Iran’s theocracy. An Iranian masterwork opens with its director behind bars 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The protests have since morphed into one of the most serious challenges to the theocracy installed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution. US hits more Iranian officials with human rights sanctions 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The unrest, in which demonstrators from all walks of life have called for the fall of Iran's ruling theocracy, has posed one of the biggest challenges to the Shi'ite-ruled Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution. Four Iranian security personnel killed in southeast Iran, IRNA says 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z From demonstrations calling for greater freedoms for women, the protests have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the chaotic years after the Islamic Revolution. Saudi-Iran talks said to have stalled over protests in Iran 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z The protests have since morphed into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy installed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran authorities arrest actress of Oscar-winning movie 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The protests have since morphred into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy installed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran authorities arrest actress of Oscar-winning movie 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Short of that, Israel will be a despotic theocracy. In Israel, Netanyahu's extremist new government rips off the mask 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The unrest, in which demonstrators from all walks of life have called for the fall of Iran's ruling theocracy, poses one of the biggest challenges to the Shi'ite Muslim-ruled Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution. Prominent Iranian Sunni cleric urges release of protest detainees 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z “Why are we supporting a corrupt theocracy that brutalizes its own people, in a war that is best known for causing immense suffering and death among impoverished, defenseless civilians?” White House pushes to derail Sanders measure cutting Saudi support 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran said Monday it executed its second prisoner detained amid the nationwide protests now challenging the country’s theocracy. Iran executes second prisoner over protest crime 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The protests have since expanded into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran executes first known prisoner arrested in protests 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Her death has sparked months of protests that now include calls for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy, one of the greatest challenges faced by Tehran since the chaotic years after its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Android phones in Iran get false quake alerts amid protests 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The protests quickly grew into the most serious challenge to Iran’s theocracy since its establishment in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran’s World Cup team gets tepid welcome home, amid protests 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The protests quickly morphed into the most serious challenge to Iran’s theocracy since its establishment in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In protest-riven Iran, some celebrate U.S. World Cup victory 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The protests have expanded into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran executes second prisoner over protest crime 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Inside Iran, Khatami pushed so-called “reformist” policies, seeking to liberalize aspects of its theocracy while maintaining its structure with a supreme leader at the top. Iran-US World Cup clash rife with political tension 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Challenging the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy, protesters from all walks of life have burned pictures of Khamenei and called for the downfall of Iran’s Shi’ite Muslim theocracy. Niece of Iran's Supreme Leader urges world to cut ties with Tehran over unrest - online video 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Her death sparked months of protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf but quickly morphed into one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran leader praises force tasked with quashing protests 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The protests have become one the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the chaotic years after its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran bolsters border security to prevent ‘infiltration’ 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Iran has been convulsed by anti-government protests for more than two months, the biggest challenge to its Islamic theocracy in more than a decade. Iran arrests soccer player over government criticism 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The protest movement sweeping Iran is shaking the legitimacy of the Islamic theocracy, which has responded with deadly force. Opinion | Iran’s streets are ablaze as it foments more trouble abroad 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The latest demonstrations mark the biggest challenge to the theocracy in over a decade. Activists: Iranian forces unleash heavy fire on protesters 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z We live in a democracy, not a theocracy. Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver take a stand for reproductive rights 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Three months into a nationwide uprising, Iranian protesters have turned their fury against the founder of the Islamic revolution and of the country’s theocracy, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iranian Protesters Attack Khomeini’s Childhood Home as Unrest Spreads 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z They rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling clerics and an end to the theocracy established after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranians protest at funeral for child killed in shooting 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Protestors in the city of Khomein have burned down the childhood home of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the country's current theocracy. Iranian protesters set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini's house 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy has been trying to solidify its support amid the demonstrations, holding rallies to mark the Nov. 4, 1979, takeover and subsequent hostage crisis at the U.S. Shops in Iran, including Grand Bazaar, close over protests 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The apparent rearming effort comes as Iran has threatened Saudi Arabia, the United States and other nations over the monthslong protests calling for the overthrow the Islamic Republic’s theocracy. US Navy: 70 tons of missile fuel from Iran to Yemen seized 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The ensuing outcry has developed into a challenge to the nation’s theocracy. 2nd Spaniard arrested in Iran amid protests; Italian freed 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z And so it has for more than a century, as Iran struggled first against repressive autocracy and then against extreme theocracy. Reza Aslan on Tehrangeles, revolution and the death threats that sidelined his book tour 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Beyond the West, states mostly have either economy or security as their top priority when it comes to an oil-rich Middle Eastern theocracy like Iran. Iranian protesters look to outside world for help 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z This year, however, it remained clear Iran’s theocracy hopes to energize its hardline base. Iran marks 1979 US Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But its basic demand, that women no longer be forced to wear headscarves, challenges the primacy of the old men who run Iran’s theocracy. Opinion | Why the fabric of Iranian repression has begun to unravel 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The uprising was sparked in part by photographs from the hospital where Amini died, which went viral on social media and triggered a massive outpouring of pent-up frustration and anger at the Islamic theocracy. Opinion | In Iran, they reported on Mahsa’s death. Now they are in jail. 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Bahrain has accused Iran’s Shiite theocracy — across the Persian Gulf from Manama — of fomenting dissent and arming militants to destabilize the country, something Tehran denies. Bahrain’s Shiites hope pope raises human rights during visit 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The protests first focused on the state-mandated hijab, or headscarf, for women but quickly grew into calls for the downfall of Iran’s theocracy itself. Gunman who attacked Iran shrine dies; Guard warns protesters 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police. Iran marks 1979 US Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Its Baluch people long have complained about being treated as second-class citizens by Iran’s Shiite theocracy. Activists say Iranian forces shot at protesters, killing 2 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Once in power, the young theocracy worked to ensure universities would no longer be breeding grounds for opposition: The clerics purged professors, arrested dissident students and set up their own powerful student associations. Iran’s elite technical university emerges as hub of protests 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The protests, the most serious unrest to grip Iran since its 2009 Green Movement demonstrations, have grown to encompass anger over Iran’s cratered economy and its theocracy as well. Iran leaders try to link protests to gun attack killing 15 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z She said, “The Iranian people do not want a theocracy, they do not want these mullahs, and we should get behind them.” Iranian Christians join protests over woman’s beating death: Reports 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z She was immediately embraced by those supporting the weekslong demonstrations in her country over the hijab that increasingly include calls for the overthrow of the country’s theocracy. Iran’s Rekabi latest female athlete at risk in home country 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z They were ready to kill for their president, take down a democratic system that has endured nearly 250 years, and follow Donald Trump at God's supposed direction until America became a Christian theocracy. Theological pandemic: Why evangelicals embraced Jan. 6 and the Big Lie 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The demonstrations, drawing school-age children, oil workers and others to the streets in over 100 cities, represent the most serious challenge to Iran’s theocracy since the mass protests surrounding its disputed 2009 presidential election. Iran’s Elnaz Rekabi, who competed without hijab, returns to Tehran 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The demonstrations, drawing school-age children, oil workers and others to the street in over 100 cities, represent the most-serious challenge to Iran’s theocracy since the mass protests surrounding its disputed 2009 presidential election. Iran’s Elnaz Rekabi, who competed without hijab, in Tehran 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The demonstrations, drawing school-age children, oil workers and others to the street, represent the most-serious challenge to Iran’s theocracy since the mass protests surrounding its disputed 2009 presidential election. Worry grows for Iran woman athlete who climbed without hijab 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z But in some ways, the country’s authoritarian clerical rulers have been preparing for this moment since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which established a conservative theocracy that has held firm until today. Iran’s Loyal Security Forces Protect Ruling System That Protesters Want to Topple 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Other segments of society, including oil workers, have also joined the movement, which has spread to at least 19 cities, becoming one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the country’s 2009 Green Movement. Rights group: 233 killed in Iran, protests enter fifth week 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z After years of pent-up anger, young people are taking to the streets in a direct challenge to the theocracy that has ruled since 1979, cheered on by prominent figures in culture and sports. Opinion | In Iran, a new generation rises. The theocracy strikes back. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The protests have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the country’s 2009 Green Movement. Iran president accuses US of ‘destabilization’ amid protests 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, some oil workers Monday joined the protests at two key refinery complexes, for the first time linking an industry key to Iran’s theocracy to the unrest. Iran’s crackdown on protests intensifies in Kurdish region 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Many analysts argue that Iran is no longer a theocracy ruled by Shiite clerics, but a military state ruled by the Guard. Iran’s Loyal Security Forces Protect Ruling System That Protesters Want to Topple 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The demonstrations represent one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the 2009 Green Movement protests. Gunfire, blasts in western Iran amid Mahsa Amini protests 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Zion was founded in 1900 as a Christian theocracy by John Alexander Dowie, an evangelical and early Pentecostal preacher who drew thousands to the city with his faith healing ministry. Two prophets, century-old prayer duel inspire Zion mosque 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z But heroically, they are willing to die, if it means the abolishment of a religious theocracy and an establishment of a free, democratic Iran. Iranian women and the men who stand by them implore the U.S. to act 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z It says security forces have also beaten and groped female protesters who remove their headscarves to protest the treatment of women by Iran’s theocracy. Amnesty: Iran ordered forces to ‘severely confront’ protests 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Compulsory hijab is one of the three remaining ideological pillars of Iran’s theocracy, along with “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Opinion | What the West should learn from the protests in Iran 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Both the theocracy and the Guard have financial and political incentive to continue the status quo. Analysis: Latest Iran protests likely not last for Tehran 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z This is not the first time the theocracy at the helm of the Iranian government has cracked down on women protesting for greater rights. What’s Driving the Protests in Iran? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The protests come at a delicate time for Iran’s theocracy. Opinion | A woman’s death shows the tyranny of Iran’s regime 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet some demonstrators still chant “death to the dictator,” targeting both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s rule and Iran’s theocracy, despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and even the possibility of a death sentence. EXPLAINER: Woman’s death in custody sparks Iran protests 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Iran’s transition from theocracy to democracy may not come easily, peacefully or soon. Opinion | What the West should learn from the protests in Iran 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy has viewed itself as under threat from the moment the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran in 1979. Analysis: Latest Iran protests likely not last for Tehran 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z From theocracies to autocracies and, of course, some democracies too, the list is long. Does China believe its own propaganda on Uyghurs? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state in the country’s Shiite theocracy, largely has been silent in recent weeks on the negotiations. Iran sends nuclear talks response; US casts doubt on offer 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Other groups are backed by Iran, and some of them are Shiite militias that answer more to Iran’s Shiite theocracy than to Iraq’s government. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead, those priorities took a back seat to concerns that Ennahda, despite its avowals of moderation, would transform the country into something more akin to a theocracy than a secular, liberal democracy. Economic Neglect and Political Instability Unraveled Tunisia’s Democracy 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z We must not only protect but also stand alongside those whose lives are threatened by theocracy merely for what they say or write. Opinion | I once wanted to burn ‘The Satanic Verses.’ Now I weep for Salman Rushdie. 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Reformists in Iran, those who want to slowly liberalize the country’s Shiite theocracy from inside and have better relations with the West, have sought to distance the country’s government from the edict. Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z At the top of Iran’s theocracy is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who would have the final say on any deal. Talks to revive Iran nuclear deal end, produce ‘final text’ 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Eslami’s agency later said he had been “misunderstood and misjudged” — likely a sign Iran’s theocracy didn’t want him to have been so specific. Analysis: Iran now speaking openly on nuclear bomb prospects 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Bahais called the arrests part of a long pattern of persecution by Iran's Shiite theocracy. World Digest: Aug. 2, 2022 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Its urge is to construct an all-American theocracy in which the Old Testament Biblical rights of men to control women as reproductive chattel are restored to them. The Gilead Playbook: Right-wing extremists are making fiction come true 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “No Christian is calling for a theocracy in America,” he said in an email. Liberals warn of ‘Christian nationalism,’ as some conservatives embrace the label 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z The crown prince has in recent years tried to transform his country from a conservative theocracy to a more complete player on the world stage, attracting tourists with a diversified economy less dependent on oil. Biden says he confronted Saudis directly on Khashoggi 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z They say they do not advocate a theocracy, but argue for a foundational role for their faith in government. The Far-Right Christian Quest for Power: ‘We Are Seeing Them Emboldened’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z We have seen the evils and hypocrisy of a theocracy in the Middle East and elsewhere; let us not let our secular nation follow suit. Opinion | Cranky is in the eye of the beholder 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Cue the alarms from those secularists who bring religious zeal to their crusade against the incipient theocracy they detect in every religious observance allowed in the public square. Opinion | Trying to protect students from a coach’s prayers did them no favors 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z It would penalize “woke corporations” and businesses that disagree with the theocracy over abortion, race, trans rights and the “inalienable right to refuse vaccination.” Opinion | Texas Republicans want to secede? Good riddance. 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Not so long ago, the town was part of an austere theocracy that practiced polygamy, shunned the outside world and required absolute obedience from its followers. With its polygamist rulers gone, a community makes a comeback 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z To have a theocracy or an authoritarian regime, you need uneducated citizens. Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Capitol on Tuesday for abortion rights, holding signs that read “Thou shalt not steal my rights,” “democracy not theocracy,” and “we will live by the mitzvot, not die by them.” Hundreds of Jews rally at the U.S. Capitol for abortion rights 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Instead of admitting that what they want is Christian theocracy, they portray themselves as the ones being attacked. Misogyny and "male supremacism": Central driving force in the rise of the far right 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The Texas Revolution “shall not be ‘reimagined’” in a way the theocracy finds “disrespectful.” Opinion | Texas Republicans want to secede? Good riddance. 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The ultimate goal of the Republican-fascists and the larger "conservative" movement is to create a 21st century apartheid theocracy. Dear Donald Trump: No, America is definitely not OK. It's your fault — and ours too 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z To have a theocracy, for example, or some other type of authoritarian regime, you need uneducated citizens, especially young people. Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Many Afghan Shiites cast doubt over the date — a day before Saudi Arabia and two days before Iran, a Shiite theocracy. Eid Under the Taliban Shows a Changed Afghanistan 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Wade is overturned, Trump's Supreme Court appointees will have fulfilled their primary mission as emissaries of the Christian fascist movement and door-kickers for American theocracy. You laughed at Trump for screwing up J.D. Vance's name. Did that save Roe v. Wade? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The strife has also caused concern in neighboring Iran, a Shiite theocracy. With Spate of Attacks, ISIS Begins Bloody New Chapter in Afghanistan 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z At least he's honest: The gentleman from the Sunshine State openly advocates for dismantling the federal government, undoing all federal laws and regulations and effectively transforming our democracy into a white male Christian theocracy. Rick Scott's loony-tunes 11-point plan: Classic GOP projection, and a roadmap to theocracy 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z For Khamenei, it is memory of the Green Movement protests that followed Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election that directly challenged the theocracy he leads. In Iran, Russia’s war on Ukraine is a political flash point 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The best way to impose theocracy on Americans is to dress it up as a secular movement. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In short, those parents have no right to try to destroy public education in this country for the rest of us, who do not have any desire to live in a theocracy. Stealth school board candidates are everywhere: But "Stop the Steal" isn't working for them 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The Guard represents one of the major power bases in the Shiite theocracy and is answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran diplomat suggests flexibility to restore nuclear deal 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z For members of the religious right, alliances with these leaders present a new frontier in their hope to achieve a theocracy in America. Dr. Justin Frank: Trump sees Putin as a superhero, loves "the power of his paranoid thinking" 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z But others from within Iran’s Shiite theocracy have raised concerns about Tehran’s stance on the war. In Iran, Russia’s war on Ukraine is a political flash point 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Now he's out of office, but the lesson was learned well: The best way to impose theocracy on Americans is to dress it up as a secular movement. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Archaeologists think that the culture was a theocracy. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A theocracy exists where the legal system of a state is based on religious law. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, Mr. Farhadi is a child of a revolution that toppled the monarchy, instituted an Islamic theocracy and turned America into a political enemy. An Iranian Director’s Rule: ‘Always Focus on Ordinary People’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Multiple GOP congressmen even drew on arguments that came from fringe authoritarian writers who believe in things like turning the U.S. into a Christian theocracy. The Bundy takeover is now complete: How the GOP has embraced pro-terrorist politics 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z A slide into theocracy or autocracy would mark the end of the American experiment of freedom of speech — especially press freedom — separation of church and state and the rule of law. Are we normalizing the "death of democracy" by talking about it so much? Definitely not 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z This type of government in which rule is based on religious authority is called a theocracy. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Iran is a present-day theocracy, often referred to as a theocratic Islamic republic. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In America, you can’t be forced to fund schools that teach creationism instead of science, theocracy instead of democracy and discrimination instead of acceptance of difference. Opinion | Do taxpayers have to fund religious education? The Supreme Court may say yes. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z However, fellow hard-liners within Iran’s theocracy long have criticized the nuclear deal as giving too much away to the West. Iran makes maximalist demands as Vienna nuclear talks open 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The revolution swept through the country, installing the Islamic theocracy that governs the nation today. Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's flamboyant ambassador to the U.S. who charmed Hollywood, dies 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Calvin believed that the ideal government was a theocracy, a government controlled by religious leaders. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z However, most scholars agree that Iran is a theocracy because the Supreme Leader, who is appointed by an Islamic religious advisory board, is the highest state authority and has the final say in all matters. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z "The same might be true for inviting deeply flawed democracy Iraq, the neighbor of U.S. adversary, the Iranian theocracy," she added. Biden's democracy summit: Problematic invite list casts shadow on impact 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z They tend to be more circumspect, often obfuscating their true intentions and avoiding the word "theocracy" in favor of "theonomy," for example. How extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Many liberal Iranians identify with the suffering of Afghans under a theocracy, similar to their own lives under the rule of Islamic Republic. Iran Wanted U.S. Out of Afghanistan. It May Be Sorry the Wish Came True. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Such claims of hacking can come quickly when Iranian outlets publish news that angers the theocracy. Iran says cyberattack closes gas stations across country 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Iran’s new theocracy first banned modern art and packed away the famous paintings. Warhol in Tehran: Iranians flock to American pop art exhibit 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z China’s Communist Party said it "peacefully liberated" Tibetans from so-called "oppressive theocracy" and restored Chinese rule over the region. Enes Kanter rips China's Xi as 'brutal dictator,' streaming giant pulls Celtics games 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Trump World is an apartheid society, a Christian nationalist theocracy and a plutocratic oligarchy. "Trump World" is no joke — and it wants to devour American democracy 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Suddenly, Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, had a militant Sunni theocracy on its border that is widely seen as anti-Shiite. Iran Wanted U.S. Out of Afghanistan. It May Be Sorry the Wish Came True. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Oct. Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after Islamic Revolution, dies at 88 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday. Banisadr, Iran’s first president after 1979 revolution, dies 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The U.S. promotes itself as a democracy not a theocracy like the Taliban regime. Evangelical theology is what made the Texas abortion outrage possible 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z We do not live in a theocracy — yet. Texas abortion law: ‘Dark Ages’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z White Christian evangelicals remain deeply committed to the political and social project of creating a Christian nationalist theocracy. Robert E. Lee and the Trumpists: Why a Confederate "hero" is still important 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z As the country lurches toward theocracy, we need voices like those more than ever. Opinion | God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the U.S. is fretting that the Taliban will reimpose its theocracy, turn back the clock on women’s rights and other freedoms. Chinese muscle in on Afghanistan’s rare earth mineral deposits, create headaches for Biden 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The Taliban has rejected such demands and is expected to announce a new government that appears modeled after Iran’s theocracy, with top Taliban religious and military leaders in key positions. Anti-Taliban resistance fighters rely on grit, history and geography to hang onto a sliver of Afghanistan 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The three-day-long engagement was chaired by Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, a religious scholar who is widely expected to become the country’s supreme leader, suggesting the new government could be structured much like Iran’s theocracy. Taliban moves to consolidate military and political control in Afghanistan 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Miller then falsely suggested that Biden was allowing "every person in the world who is living under Islamic theocracy" to move to the United States. Stephen Miller loses his cool during Fox News interview about Afghan refugees 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z China’s ruling Communist Party says it “peacefully liberated” Tibetan peasants from an oppressive theocracy and restored Chinese rule over a region under threat from outside powers. China pushes adoption of language, cultural symbols in Tibet 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Rouhani, a relative moderate within Iran’s theocracy, insisted he and his officials did their best. Outgoing Iran president says government not always truthful 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Authors of these proposed laws insist, for example, that they're not out to "change our model of government into a theocracy" and that the bills don't "mimic or enact any particular religious code." The Christian nationalist assault on democracy goes stealth — but the pushback is working 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z The province is home to ethnic Arabs who complain of discrimination by Iran’s Shiite theocracy. Videos: Protests, gunfire in oil-rich, restive Iran province 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Mrs. Rajavi: For a regime as riddled with crises as the ruling theocracy in Iran, eliminating the only viable democratic alternative to guarantee its own survival is of paramount importance. Q&A: Maryam Rajavi, dissident leader, puts spotlight on ‘the Iran of tomorrow’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z “This is not acceptable,” said former President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who sought to change its theocracy from inside during his eight years in office. Iran votes in presidential poll tipped in hard-liner’s favor 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Iran's complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy. Iran: How a unique system runs the country 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Polling from the state-linked Iranian Student Polling Agency puts turnout — long viewed by officials as a sign of support for the theocracy — on track to be the lowest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Analysis: Subdued Iran vote will still impact wider Mideast 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Salimi, the man in the bazaar, said he would still vote for hard-liners and would support Iran’s theocracy no matter the challenges ahead. As Iran prepares to vote, its battered economy a major worry 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In his later years, he slowly joined the cause of reformists in Iran, hoping to change the Islamic Republic’s theocracy from the inside. Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, Shiite cleric and a founder of Hezbollah, dies at 74 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Within Iran, candidates exist on a spectrum that broadly includes hard-liners keen to expand Iran’s nuclear program, moderates desirous of holding on to the status quo and reformists seeking to change the theocracy from within. World Digest: May 11, 2021 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z While protection from a theocracy is important, it is hard to argue that this text is meant to enforce secularism. America was not founded as 'a Christian country' based on 'Judeo-Christian' values 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Besides the criticism of Soleimani, a top commander in the Guard, Zarif’s leaked remarks included cutting references to the limits of his power in the theocracy. Iranian foreign minister apologizes for leaked comments 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z His supporters believe he was coerced into a forced confession and actually was punished for participating in protests against Iran’s Shiite theocracy in 2018. Activists call for IOC to sanction Iran Olympic program 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z While cooperating, the two services are rivals within Iran’s theocracy. Iran, Saudis hold talks in Baghdad, few expect quick results 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z However, pressure does appear to be growing within Iran’s theocracy over how to respond to the attack. Iran warns sabotage affects Vienna talks over nuclear deal 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z I was already indoctrinated that democracy was Satanic and we needed a theocracy to rule America and the world. QAnon and the Trump cult: Expert Steven Hassan on whether they can be saved 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Kahane advocated for a Jewish theocracy, the expulsion of Palestinians, and a ban on marriage between Jews and Arabs. 'Racist and reprehensible': Jewish Power set to enter Israel's parliament 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Women feared their daughters would live in an Islamic theocracy. Opinion | Egypt presents Biden a familiar conundrum: How to handle a ‘friendly’ authoritarian 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Wade and create some form of Christian theocracy. Two reasons we can't ignore evangelicals — and two ways we can break their political power 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z In April 1979, Iranians voted to become an Islamic Republic, a Shiite theocracy with Khomeini as the country’s first supreme leader with final say over all matters of state. Wheels only, please: Iran marks 1979 revolution anniversary 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z There is also their brand of Christianity, which promotes racial animosity, hatred of Democrats, intolerance and would subvert our Constitution to create a theocracy. QAnon and evangelicals: Republicans baptized in crazy 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Without mentioning Turkey directly, he warned: “Authoritarian regional powers are re-emerging, theocracies are re-emerging. It is an extraordinary acceleration of a return of religion on the political scene in a number of these countries.” EU must assert autonomy in face of US-China dominance, says Macron 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Will the American people hold high the United States Constitution and its commandment that church and state should be separate, or instead passively slouch further toward a Christian theocracy? Former Clintonite David Rothkopf on how Biden and the Democrats can redeem themselves 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z In their mythology, Trump's evil behavior is somehow part of God's plan, and very likely a means of creating a racist Christian theocracy. American madhouse at a turning point: Is our nation finally ready to rejoin reality? 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z “Women are threatened in a world where a Christian theocracy is threatening to take over,” she said, pointing to the women in handmaid costumes. Women’s March in D.C. draws thousands in protest of Supreme Court nominee, Trump 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z So the story of how Connecticut moved from a colonial-era theocracy to a modern pluralistic democracy is more than a historical curiosity. How democracy beat back lies, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories — in 19th-century Connecticut 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z All three took part in demonstrations in 2018 that began in anger over Iran’s cratering economy and spiraled into direct calls for the overthrow Iran’s theocracy. Iran airs televised confession of wrestler after Trump tweet 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z One possible source here is pseudo-historian David Barton, who has spread a great deal of misinformation used to prop up the idea that the U.S. was meant to be a theocracy. Of course the RNC featured anti-choice radical Abby Johnson, who thinks women shouldn't vote 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Recent provocations by Iran show that the United States should reimpose sanctions on the Middle Eastern theocracy, Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Pregent told "Your World" Thursday. Iran expert warns Tehran regime's provocations 'going to get worse,' show value of 'snapback' sanctions 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Iran suffered the region’s first major outbreak, seeing top politicians, health officials and religious leaders in its Shiite theocracy stricken with the virus. Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Iran suffered the region’s first major outbreak, seeing top politicians, health officials and religious leaders in its Shiite theocracy stricken with the virus. Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Afghan officials have accused the Shiite theocracy of supporting the Sunni Taliban movement, in part to establish a sphere of control in the border region. In pursuit of powerful allies, Afghan government rewards a notorious figure 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z A direct accusation by Tehran would increase the pressure on Iran’s Shiite theocracy to respond, something it apparently does not want to do yet. Analysis: Risks grow after blast hits Iran’s nuclear program 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Religious considerations also played a role in this Shiite theocracy as authorities declined for weeks to close shrines where the faithful touch or kiss the tombs’ protective bars. Iran mandates masks as public shrugs off resurgent virus 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Ruhollah Zam's website and a channel he created on the popular messaging app Telegram had spread the timings of the protests and embarrassing information about officials that directly challenged Iran's Shiite theocracy. Iran journalist who fueled 2017 protests sentenced to death 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But he does not want to turn Malawi into a theocracy and neither does he want to proselytise, he added. The president who 'argued with God' 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z To this day Iran’s Shiite theocracy portrays the U.S. as a hostile foreign power bent on subverting and overthrowing its government. Cables: US falsely said British queen backed 1953 Iran coup 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Most citizens yearn for Iran to join the global stage more than four decades after the revolution that turned it into a strict Muslim theocracy. In the midst of the pandemic, Iranian authorities crack down on social media users 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The moral of this story is not that there is theocracy in our future. Opinion | When American conservatism becomes un-American 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In Iran, a Shiite theocracy, clerics preside over and participate in all matters of the state. Iran’s clerics have bungled their coronavirus response, stoking doubts about their rule 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Experts believe this offers Iran’s Shiite theocracy and the Guard hard currency amid the U.S. sanctions campaign targeting the country’s vital oil industry. Venezuela turns to Iran for a hand restarting its gas pumps 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z In Tehran, the virus began moving through the government and the Shiite theocracy. ‘Virus at Iran’s gates’: How Tehran failed to stop outbreak 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “People like to talk about Utah like it’s a theocracy,” but the church isn’t the only significant stakeholder in the state, she said. US hasn’t followed Utah’s approach to LGBTQ protections 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z I grew up in a culture of dominionism — the belief that government should be run as a theocracy, or at least brought into close alignment with religious values. Washed clean 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Jewish Power’s leaders are political heirs of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated the expulsion of Palestinians and a Jewish theocracy. Take 3: The main actors in Israel’s re-do contested election 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy at first downplayed the threat, perhaps to curry favor with China — an important trading partner — and to avoid startling a population already beaten down by years of fiscal mismanagement and U.S. economic sanctions. Can a fragmented world stop a coronavirus pandemic? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The decision to keep the shrines open shows the power of Iran’s religious establishment and the Shiite theocracy’s approach to the widening crisis. Iranian clerics keep shrines open, even as virus spreads 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Conservatives, who like hardliners support the theocracy but favor a less confrontational foreign policy, would back detente. Iran's 'cup of poison'? Hardline win may point to eventual U.S. talks 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Both back the ruling theocracy, but conservatives support engagement with the outside world. Factbox: Choices curtailed - Iran's parliamentary election 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z To safeguard the theocracy, an amendment was made to the constitution after Khomenei’s death that expanded the velayat-e-faqih and ensured the supreme leader wields absolute power. Boycotts and disqualifications: how Iran’s reformists are bracing for elections 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Like hardliners, conservatives back the ruling theocracy, but unlike them support more engagement with the outside world. Factbox: Choices curtailed - Iran's parliamentary election 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Like hardliners, conservatives back the ruling theocracy, but unlike them support more engagement with the outside world. Khamenei loyalists may tighten grip at Iran elections 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Founded in 1965 to oppose the Shah of Iran, the group later rejected the theocracy that replaced him. Highly Secretive Iranian Rebels Are Holed Up in Albania. They Gave Us a Tour. 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Iran later would vote to become an Islamic Republic, a Shiite theocracy with Khomeini as its first supreme leader with final say over all matters of state. Iranians rally, mark anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z America will more fully become a Christian fascist theocracy. King Donald: After acquittal, Trump moves to seize power — and alter reality 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z And most are led by Sunni Muslim administrations that are aligned with the United States and Israel in confronting Iran’s revolutionary Shi’ite theocracy. Palestinians face uphill battle against Trump's Middle East plan 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It highlights the limits of the civilian arm of Iran’s government against the absolute power held by the nation’s Shiite theocracy and the paramilitary forces beneath it. 10 Things to Know for Today 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The downing of the jetliner highlights the limits of the civilian arm of Iran’s government against the absolute power held by the nation’s Shiite theocracy and the paramilitary forces beneath it. Downing of jet in Iran reveals Islamic Republic’s wider woes 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Jewish Power’s top candidates for the Knesset are successors of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated the forced removal of Palestinians and a Jewish theocracy. Right-wing parties in Israel unite, rejecting fringe list 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z They railed at the theocracy for “complete incompetence,” from political repression to economic neglect and a foreign policy that brought the nation close to war. The Anger and Anguish Fuelling Iran’s Protests 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Here is a look at past protests in Iran, and how its theocracy prevailed. For decades Iranians have risen up, only to be put down 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z M.B.Z. may have prevented Egypt from becoming an Islamic theocracy — that, at any rate, is how he sees it. Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps in reaction to the theocracy that rules Iran, Mr. Parseyan said that most Iranians in Edmonton are secular. Plane Crash Leaves Iranian Diaspora in Canada Grief-Stricken 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Forty years after the Iranian Revolution during which a theocracy took charge in Tehran, a new ruling elite was created. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “Israel was never meant to be a theocracy,” she said. Israel in uproar after chief rabbi calls ex-Soviet Jews 'religion-hating' communists 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Zayid also said that Israel “hunts” Palestinians, compared Israel to Saudi Arabia, calling it a theocracy, and accused Israel of wanting to “steal” Palestinian land “to make a garbage dump for their illegal supremacist settlers!” Elizabeth Warren touts support from anti-Israel comic who once called her a ‘weasel’ 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z He saw the Saudi royal family as feckless, but feared that the alternative in such a deeply conservative society could be an ISIS-style Wahhabi theocracy. Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Skeptics have long doubted that Iran, which last year marked its 40th anniversary as a Shiite Muslim theocracy, could find common cause with a radical Sunni Islamist group such as al Qaeda. Iran’s leader vows ‘severe revenge,’ while Democrats question the legality of U.S. strike 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z She was deeply disturbed by the rise of a budding theocracy under Trump, and how few in the media take it seriously as a threat to democracy. With a new decade — a new hope? Reasons for optimism in a disordered world 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z One leading Afghan official who met representatives of the group earlier this year told me he believed they favoured a theocracy along the lines of the system in Iran. Where the road to peace is harder than war 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z The report further contends that in a document entitled the Biblical Basis for War, Shea “advocated the replacement of US democracy with a theocracy and the killing of all males who do not agree”. Republican Matt Shea 'participated in act of domestic terrorism', says report 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The protests quickly escalated from being about the price of gasoline to being about the future of the theocracy. Could Iran’s Revolution Unravel Over a Four-Cent Price Hike? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It also draws Iran, governed by a Shiite theocracy, deeper into the unrest. Iraq forms ‘crisis cells’ as Iran’s Najaf consulate burns and more than two dozen protesters are killed 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The campaign for Liberty state has underpinned activism in the Shea network, but has also provoked fears among opponents who believe that proponents are seeking to implement a dominionist theocracy. Secret chats involving Republican lawmaker reveal fresh evidence of plots and paranoia 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It points now to the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” policy, which it describes as trying to topple its Shiite theocracy. AP Analysis: Iran, US still captive to 1979 hostage crisis 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z “Romans 13 is a sound approach. It basically suggests that the government is not a theocracy.” How the Trump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Became a Shadow Diplomat 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z In other words, that four-cent price hike proved disproportionately costly to the regime and also its people, making the political environment more unstable and the theocracy’s future more uncertain. Could Iran’s Revolution Unravel Over a Four-Cent Price Hike? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z For a group intent on re-establishing a theocracy from the Middle Ages, the Islamic State was very much a creature of its time. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS Leader Known for His Brutality, Is Dead at 48 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Four years later, she found herself unmoored from family and country when the Iranian Revolution toppled the monarchy of Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, and in its place installed a theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Artist Shirin Neshat challenges the idea of Muslim women as victims and explores exile 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Joyce could neither live nor work in the Ireland of his time – a suffocating theocracy that foreclosed every possibility of freedom: intellectual, sexual and existential. James Joyce’s words haunt Dublin. It doesn’t need his bones | Mark O’Connell 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z No. This appeared to be a tacit endorsement of theocracy. Opinion | Is this Barr’s cry for help? 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The match marked a decades-long push by Iranian women to be able to watch soccer matches, something hard-liners in Iran’s Shiite theocracy to this day still oppose. South Korea beats Sri Lanka 8-0 in World Cup qualifier 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In one long paragraph, he prophesies the history of the twentieth century, from fascism to theocracy. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z What's left today is reaction, dead-end identity politics, and rank theocracy. Opinion | Last Exit From Trumpland 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Jewish Power’s leaders are successors of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated the expulsion of Palestinians and a Jewish theocracy. Round 2: The main parties, blocs in Israel’s repeat election 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, women are barred from entering stadiums during male sporting events, so Khodayari disguised herself as a man. Iranian female soccer fan barred from match dies after setting herself on fire 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z I was acquainted with theocracy, and the sick appeal of female subservience: I had grown up Baptist in Texas, with the idea that girls should consecrate their bodies for God and for their future husbands. Margaret Atwood Expands the World of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The coalition’s ostensible goal is to restore Hadi’s government and prevent the Shiite theocracy of Iran from gaining regional influence through its alliance with the Houthis. Six reasons the crisis in Yemen’s south matters 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Constitution and its rules separating church and state, with the ultimate goal of creating a Christian theocracy. How Pat Robertson's Christian TV empire created a "shadow government" — and led to Donald Trump 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z That creeping theocracy results in a monument to the Ten Commandments being offered pride of place at the Oklahoma State Capitol building in Oklahoma City. The Satanists battling for religious freedom 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It would be a tragic mistake to allow Mr. Modi to steer the world’s largest democracy from a secular country into a Hindu theocracy. Opinion | India could make a tragic turn toward a Hindu theocracy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “The motto ‘In God We Trust‘ is inaccurate, exclusionary, and aimed at brainwashing American schoolchildren into believing that our nation is a theocracy.” ‘In God We Trust’ law for S.D. schools ripped by Freedom from Religion Foundation: ‘Brainwashing’ 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Despite being heralded as a new, accessible civilian face in a Shiite theocracy that is now 40 years old, Jahromi’s past as an intelligence officer has raised political concern. AP Interview: Rising Iran politician has intelligence ties 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z He believes in the theocracy of Iran; he is a product of it. The Dangers of Trump’s Approach to Iran 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The conflict is also widely considered a proxy war between the Iran and Saudi Arabia, which is the Shiite theocracy’s main regional rival. Yemeni rebel missile strike hits Saudi airport, injuring 26 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired off a series of tweets Friday afternoon accusing Republican lawmakers of trying to destroy U.S. democracy in favor of a “far-right Christian theocracy.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Republicans trying to turn U.S. into ‘far-right Christian theocracy’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates, leads a regional coalition of Sunni Muslim nations fighting the northern Shiite Houthi rebels who are aligned with Iran’s Shiite theocracy. Saudis say oil pipeline was attacked by drones, possibly from Yemen 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The economic crisis has increased internal pressure on Rouhani, a relative moderate within Iran’s Shia theocracy, to take some sort of counter action. Iran nuclear deal: what has Tehran said and what happens next? 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The awkwardness for American Jews is not their part in America’s plutocracy but their rationalizations of Netanyahu’s theocracy. Israelis vs. Jews: An Issue in Netanyahu’s Campaign—and for the AIPAC Conference 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Jewish Power’s leaders are successors of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated expelling Arabs from Israel and creating a Jewish theocracy. Israel’s Supreme Court bans Jewish extremist from election 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z “What angers me about the GOP’s attempts to turn the United States into a far-right Christian theocracy is how dishonest they are about it,” she wrote. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Republicans trying to turn U.S. into ‘far-right Christian theocracy’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Ghaemi said he believes Iran’s theocracy connects the hijab protests to the nationwide economic protests that occurred around the same time at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. Iran lawyer convicted after defending women protesters 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Jewish Power’s leaders are successors of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated the forced removal of Palestinians and a Jewish theocracy. Israeli panel won’t bar Jewish radicals from election 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The fallout has also exposed inner tensions within Iran's theocracy, where both elected officials and paramilitary forces answer to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. AP Explains: Iran's FM quits as atomic deal unravels 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The fallout has also exposed inner tensions within Iran’s theocracy, where both elected officials and paramilitary forces answer to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. AP Explains: Iran’s FM quits as atomic deal unravels 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Jewish Power embraces the ideas of the late rabbi Meir Kahane, who wanted a Jewish theocracy and advocated forced removal of Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu defends Jewish Power partnership 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z The faction embraces ideas of the late Meir Kahane, an ultranationalist American Israeli rabbi who wanted a Jewish theocracy and advocated the forced removal of Palestinians. World Digest: Feb. 23, 2019 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Jewish Power embraces ideas of late rabbi Meir Kahane, who wanted a Jewish theocracy and advocated forced removal of Palestinians. Israel’s Netanyahu defends partnership with far-right party 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Hitchens says that while they may be winning the argument intellectually, in global terms he and his fellow secularists are in “a tiny, dwindling minority that’s going to be defeated by the forces of theocracy”. Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Thousands of people took to the streets of Iran’s capital on Monday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which ousted a secular, pro-American monarchy and replaced it with the an anti-Western theocracy. It's been 40 years since the Iranian Revolution, and they're still chanting 'Death to America' 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Besides installing the Shiite theocracy that governs today, the Islamic Revolution touted independence from both the West and the East. Iran’s ‘revolution babies’ weigh their progress since 1979 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Besides installing the Shiite theocracy that governs today, the Islamic Revolution touted independence from both the West and the East. Iran’s ‘revolution babies’ weigh their progress since 1979 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It may be having a hard time with democracy, but it seems to be on its way to becoming the greatest theocracy in the world. Sarah Sanders believes Trump’s presidency was a divine plan. God bless America! | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z If the only state I’m criticizing for being a theocracy is Israel, then something is very wrong, because every other state in that region is a theocracy. Looking at Anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right: An Interview with Deborah E. Lipstadt 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Shortly after the 1979 revolution, during the early years of the Islamic Republic, the government embarked on a systematic crackdown on people it viewed as enemies of the conservative theocracy. Iran arrests demographers, the latest target amid an escalating crackdown on academics and activists If this does not hold, then how slippery is the road to theocracy? Opinion | Treating a Fetus as a Person 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z But the Satanic Temple, which describes itself as “a nontheistic religious organization determined to halt the dangerous encroachment of theocracy into American government,” says it does not want the gates of hell to prevail. Satan Is in the Illinois Capitol. Because It’s the Holidays! 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “They belong on private property. They don’t belong on governmental property, where the favored religion is endorsed and other people are excluded. That’s what you would expect in a theocracy.” Atheists target Christmas, Hanukkah displays 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z By its own definition, the Islamic Republic of Iran is a revolutionary regime dedicated to exporting its form of radical Islam; it’s also a theocracy that relies on nationalist sentiment to maintain its support. Opinion | Iran’s regime could fall apart. What happens then? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z He could even be nuanced: He warned against allowing Israel to be turned into a theocracy, and supported a requirement for ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve in the military. Lieberman’s Colorful Career Reaches a Fork. Again. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Muslim nations is also wary of the spreading influence in the region of Iran’s Shiite theocracy, widely said to be backing the Houthis. Two days after U.S. call for cease-fire, Saudi-led coalition launches new attacks in Yemen 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z We’re right to dismiss the Puritans’ theocracy because it was repressive and hypocritical. Our republic is in crisis — and it’s killing us. Can we really claim we didn’t see it coming? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “And that’s scary. Almost implied in all of this is an attempt to create a theocracy here in America. And we are frightened because that’s just the opposite of what America should be about.” 'Our faith compels us': Christian resistance to Trump gathers steam 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The Fox News host made it clear that he was not defending the Saudi royal family, whose regime he characterized as "a primitive evil theocracy in the desert." Fox News’s Tucker Carlson dismisses killing of Jamal Khashoggi because nobody knew him two week... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z He will have right-sized the trade relationship with China and ended the Iranian theocracy. 'He'll be re-elected': Trump and allies tout the sweet smell of 2020 success 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z When we spoke last November, Khashoggi compared the Saudi monarchy to the Iranian theocracy. Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi? 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “Does anyone seriously believe that flooding Iran’s theocracy with weapons and cash will curb its appetite for aggression?” Israel vs Iran: Netanyahu lobs nuclear claim _ again 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The former impulse finally won out in 1896, when the Mormon leadership agreed, to the enduring dismay of some of the faithful, to abandon both polygamy and theocracy in exchange for statehood. Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Decided to Sue President Trump 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z But limits still clearly exist in Iran’s Shiite theocracy, ensnaring lawyers, activists and others in lengthy prison terms handed down in closed-door trials. Iran’s politicians under pressure, 40 years after revolution 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z But limits still clearly exist in Iran's Shiite theocracy, ensnaring lawyers, activists and others in lengthy prison terms handed down in closed-door trials. Iran's politicians under pressure, 40 years after revolution 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z For Iran’s Shiite theocracy, comments like these only fuel fears that America and its Gulf Arab allies are plotting to tear the Islamic Republic apart. Iran sees threats from abroad after parade attack kills 25 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z For Iran’s Shiite theocracy, comments like these only fuel fears that America and its Gulf Arab allies are plotting to tear the Islamic Republic apart. Iran sees threats from abroad after parade attack kills 25 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Driven steadily westward by religious persecution, the early Mormons arrived in Utah in the mid-nineteenth century and began trying to establish an autonomous theocracy. Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Decided to Sue President Trump 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Bazaar families opposed the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution that saw him replaced by the Shiite theocracy and elected officials. Unease, anger in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, Iran’s beating heart 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Following the revolution, the MEK quickly fell out with Khomeini and launched an armed revolt against Khomeini’s new theocracy. 2 alleged agents of Iran arrested for spying in US 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “With the Republicans in charge of Congress and so many of these states, we are seeing a constant push for theocracy.” ‘In God We Trust’ motto could be coming to Alabama schools 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The aim was to prevent Iran’s Shiite theocracy, widely believed to be backing the Houthis, from expanding its influence in a sphere dominated by Sunni Muslim countries. Dying babies and no doctors: A look inside a Yemeni hospital 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy. Opinion | Mike Pence, Holy Terror 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z He compared Iran’s theocracy to the Mafia, labelled its clerics “hypocritical holy men,” and cited the corrupt wealth—in specific millions or billions of dollars—of top officials. Trump Threatens Showdown With Iran 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Apparently, theocracy is perfectly acceptable to Mr. Douthat as long as it’s “his” religion imposing the rules. Opinion | Awaiting the Hearings on Judge Kavanaugh 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Wade not in artificial reasoning about privacy rights but in the Constitution’s policy of defending religious and other freedoms while barring back doors to theocracy. Opinion | The supreme stakes at the Supreme Court 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Depicting the rise of an oppressive theocracy that views women on the merits of their reproductive value, the series’ dystopia aligned with the 2016 election of President Trump and the renewed prominence of fundamentalist ideals. In 'Game of Thrones' and 'Handmaid's Tale,' the top Emmy nominees reflect a revolution at different points 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z These evangelicals, like former President Jimmy Carter, are spiritual descendants of Roger Williams, who was banished from the Puritan theocracy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded the first Baptist congregation in colonial America. Opinion | The White House Is Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z In its 40th year, Iran’s theocracy looks in poor health. Iran’s anaemic economy is pushing people over the edge 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z He was a defender of democracy and a foe of dictators and theocracies. Opinion | A national treasure is lost 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z America isn’t a theocracy; there is supposed to be, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “a wall of separation between church and state”. Six Bible verses Jeff Sessions should read as he separates migrant families 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In Iran, ruled by an Islamic theocracy, there is a nine-point difference. Young more religious than old in only two countries in world 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The first constituency to give up on theocracy was the students, whose protest in 1999 ended the attempt by the regime to reform itself. Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, a relatively moderate cleric within the theocracy, always supported a diplomatic solution to end the state of war on the Korean Peninsula. Iran, spurned by US, angrily watches Trump-North Korea talks 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z One such individual in Iran is Ali Ansari, who owns a variety of different types of businesses in the Iranian theocracy. In rogue regimes, inequality provides U.S. a target of attack 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “This ruling theocracy is stuck in its own proclaimed ideology, which is not clear and predictable,” said Shahla Lahiji, a publisher and civil rights activist. As Taboos Break Down, Iranians Party On 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Some hope that this new confrontational tone coming from Washington might weaken Iran’s theocracy. Opinion | Why Trump’s plans for regime change in Iran will have the opposite effect 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The poor were thought to be the regime’s last bastion of power, tied to theocracy by piety and the welfare state. Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z No one believed it would bring massive change to Iran, which remains a Shiite theocracy overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran, spurned by US, angrily watches Trump-North Korea talks 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z "The ruling theocracy is not independent as it claims to be — it wants to collude to keep business with Europe," Raisdana said. The return of U.S. sanctions is expected to sow misery in Iran. But for those with money, there's a haven: dollars 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “It was a democracy, definitely, but it was very much informed in terms of social policy by religion and by particularly Catholic ideology, so we could call it a democratic theocracy,” Dr. McAuliffe said. Understanding Ireland’s Vote on Whether to Keep Its Abortion Ban 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The Shiite theocracy’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious decree, or fatwa, 30 years ago calling for respect of transgender people, opening the way for official support for gender transition surgery. Transgender people in Iran face discrimination despite fatwa 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z And the corollary of the settlers’ culture war is theocracy. The fight to define the very essence of Israel | Bernard Avishai 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z It imagines the aftermath of another kind of second American civil war, where a theocracy rules and all remnants of former civilization are destroyed. The fear is now: How HBO’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ measures up against TV's most recent dystopian dramas 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In December the urban poor in the provinces took to the streets, denouncing theocracy. Iran braces for economic war with America 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Iran, a Shiite theocracy, still wields great power over Iraq, which has a Shiite majority. U.S. Takes a Risk: Old Iraqi Enemies Are Now Allies 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z He regarded Iran as potentially a more natural ally of the United States than many of its Sunni-dominant neighbors, with a young, educated Western-oriented population that is tired of being ruled by an aging theocracy. Behind Trump’s Termination of Iran Deal Is Risky Bet That U.S. Can ‘Break the Regime’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z While less oppressive than the Saudi monarchy, the Iranian theocracy is no model democracy. Will the Iran nuclear deal survive Trump’s wrecking crew? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Believe it or not, many people who live in them don't want to live in theocracies. Pompeo and Bolton Appointments Raise Alarm Over Ties to Anti-Islam Groups 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Choi’s influence over the president led one opposition lawmaker to describe Park’s government as “a scary theocracy”. Former South Korea president Park Geun-hye guilty of corruption 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Five months ago, he called Iran a “despotic theocracy” and “a pernicious empire that is expanding its power and influence across the Middle East.” Mike Pompeo, a Hawk Who Pleased the President, Moves From Spying to Diplomacy 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z This is no more, no less, than a form of theocracy, with Donald Trump as god. U.S. Allies Sign Sweeping Trade Deal in Challenge to Trump 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The result of this factional fight is paralysis at a time when the theocracy is facing popular disaffection, economic decline and imperial overstretch. Let Rouhani and Khamenei Fight 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z There will be no theocracy in America, despite Pence. Opinion | Power to the Parents 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Why are my tax dollars used to support a corrupt theocracy? Iran Finally Let Her See Her Husband. He Was Dead. 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Thousands of pro-reform activists, members of minority religious groups and other presumed opponents of the Shiite Muslim theocracy were also detained after anti-government protests erupted Dec. 28. Environmentalists are the latest targets for arrest in Iran. One died in prison, officials say 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim countries entered the conflict largely to prevent their regional rival, Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, from projecting its influence along their borders by backing the Houthis. Yemen’s war is so out of control, allies are turning on one another 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z But it’s hard to imagine the theocracy prevailing indefinitely in a society so hungry for change. Opinion | The Iranian regime can’t keep winning forever 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z But in a theocracy, any political upheaval will inevitably affect the faith. The Secular Republic of Iran 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The current regime ruling Iran is a corrupt, infantile, repressed, ignorant, theocracy. Iran Finally Let Her See Her Husband. He Was Dead. 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z It was a less-than-subtle reference to the many Islamic schools and foundations connected to the ruling theocracy that receive lavish public funds with hardly any oversight. Inequalities fueled unrest in Iran. Will its leaders do anything to resolve the anger? 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And I'm sure you support the same for the Saudi citizens living under a much more extremist theocracy. Hard-Liners and Reformers Tapped Iranians’ Ire. Now, Both Are Protest Targets. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “Iranian women are literally risking their lives, fighting against an oppressive Islamic theocracy, and not a single tweet of support from the @womensmarch,” Scott Presler tweeted. Feminists mum on Iranian protest; Obama aides urge Trump to ‘be quiet’ 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The mullahs’ system is stuck: It can’t evolve into a real democracy, and it can’t resuscitate the religious militancy that once sustained the theocracy and drew tens of thousands of new recruits into the clergy. The Secular Republic of Iran 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z For the past several nights, he has joined demonstrators in the side streets near Tehran University, chanting slogans to bring down the theocracy in the most significant unrest in Iran in nearly a decade. Young, working-class and fed up: Iran's deadly protests driven by a new crop of dissenters 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed into a rejection of theocracy. Iran’s Theocracy Is on the Brink 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Could it be that maybe, just maybe, the Iranians are fed up with this iron-fisted theocracy and want the ayatollahs gone. As Iranian Protesters Dig In, Officials Warn of Harsher Response 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Shashank Bengali traveled to Iran in August and found simmering anger with the theocracy and outright desperation among a middle class suffering from years of international economic sanctions. Two killed in three days of stunning protests in Iran: What our correspondent saw there 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Condemnation, the thirst for power and turning the USA into a theocracy which is unbiblical is their goal and for this goal evangelicals sacrifice Christ again. Opinion | Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z In Turkey the newly established secular republic moved in 1926 to abolish sharia as an unwanted relic of the discredited Ottoman theocracy. Greece prepares to do away with compulsory sharia in Western Thrace 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z If I wanted to live in a theocracy, I'd move to Iran. 4 More Women Accuse Roy Moore of Misconduct 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The Islamic Republic’s Western enablers present it as strong and steady, but the theocracy now resembles the Soviet Union in its dying days. How to Defeat the Islamic Republic 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z “Blue-exit” now, and I wish the remainder well, though I strongly suspect they will rapidly devolve into a Third World Christian theocracy. Opinion | The future that evangelical Christians want 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z This narrower reading is, apparently, the official line not only in full-blown theocracies like Saudi Arabia but somewhat milder places like Malaysia. A Turkish writer’s detention sends a sombre message about Islam 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Others said the draft served the interests of the theocracy, which would be less able to control a professional army. What's wrong with the Iranian army? Deadly shootings put spotlight on forced military service 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He also said he supports a theocracy along Iranian lines — Christian, of course, rather than Muslim. A Russian love story about Nicholas II and a ballerina leads to death threats 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Fifty-two United States diplomats and other citizens had been taken captive five months earlier under a new Iranian theocracy hostile to America. Special Ops Forces: How Elite Forces Became Military Muscle 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z These tendencies – to millennialism, theocracy and scapegoating – have frequently recurred in America’s white Christian culture. We're at the end of white Christian America. What will that mean? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The winner in the drama category was “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale in which America becomes an theocracy in which dissidents are executed and all women become property. This year's Emmys didn't even pretend not to be political 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z It is a description of transformed hearts, not a prescription for theocracy. Opinion | Senate Democrats show off their anti-religious bigotry 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “I’m a simple mullah, but people associate me with the theocracy,” he said. Iran's 'city of mullahs' has a surprising side 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Likewise there are Muslims on the other side who will struggle against theocracy — Islamist theocracy in particular — while defending democratic values. Former Islamist radical Maajid Nawaz on why the SPLC has labeled him an "anti-Muslim extremist" 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The clergy soon sidelined moderate revolutionaries such as Bazargan on the road to forming an Islamic theocracy under the rule of a supreme leader. Ebrahim Yazdi, Iranian foreign minister turned dissident, dies at 85 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.” Nina Burleigh, Newsweek writer, devotes 1,562-word essay to… Melania Trump’s shoe choices?! 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Sullivan's uncle was William H. Sullivan, the last U.S. ambassador to Iran, who left in 1979 when Iran's monarchy was overthrown and replaced with an Islamic theocracy. Senior U.S. envoy tries to calm fears over State Department re-design 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z In neighboring Yemen, the kingdom is engaged in a costly war against Shiite Houthi rebels said to be backed by Iran’s Shiite theocracy, Saudi Arabia’s top regional rival. 14 Saudi Shiites accused of staging protests now face execution 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z But that does not mean Indonesian democracy is destined to become a theocracy in which government policy is divinely inspired. Is Indonesia’s “pious democracy” safe from Islamic extremism? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “Iranian society is simmering with discontent and the international community is finally getting closer to the reality that appeasing the ruling theocracy is misguided.” Iranian dissidents rally in France for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z But in Iran’s theocracy, one vote matters most: that of the supreme leader. After Iranians' vote for reform, a bigger question looms: Who will be the next supreme leader? 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Sullivan's uncle was William H. Sullivan, the last U.S. ambassador to Iran, who left in 1979 when Iran's monarchy was overthrown and replaced with an Islamic theocracy. Senior U.S. envoy tries to calm fears over State Department re-design 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z But there is also a risk that the operation will shake the country’s fragile democracy to the ground and clear the way for a rightwing evangelical theocracy or a return to rule by dictators. Has Brazil’s Operation Car Wash exposed the biggest corruption scandal ever? 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Atwood had observed the conditions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, in which a formerly secular, Westernized society was suddenly transformed into a patriarchal theocracy. Watch these conservatives do mental gymnastics to convince themselves “The Handmaid’s Tale” isn’t about them 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In recent years quiet cooperation has developed especially on the intelligence front with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states — Sunni Muslim nations who like Israel see a threatening rival in the Shiite theocracy of Iran. Trump touts ultimate peace, leaving details for later 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z In Iran’s unwieldy hybrid of democracy and theocracy, elections do not deliver ultimate control of the country, but neither are they the empty propaganda charades put on by countries such as North Korea. Iran election: polls open to chose a president – and a relatonship with the west 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z It was led by three factions: nationalists who sought a Western-style republic, Islamists who favored a sort of populist theocracy and communists, the most powerful group. How Iran Became an Undemocratic Democracy 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In the dystopian Old-meets-New World Order of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a totalitarian theocracy has taken over the United States. Elisabeth Moss and Joseph Fiennes build the tension in the dark world of 'The Handmaid's Tale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z She also writes columns in newspapers published by Iranian reformists, who oppose the theocracy, agitate for greater social freedoms and generally back Rouhani for reelection. Pedestrian walkways, bike lanes, green spaces: An unusual election platform for a politician in Iran 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Her main objection to the claims that the series is “timely” seems to be that America is not a literal misogynist theocracy. Burst your bubble: conservative takes on Margaret Atwood and Marine Le Pen 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Iran is often thought of as an Islamic theocracy, but it is a blend of different political systems, including elements of parliamentary democracy. Iran presidential election: Five things to know - BBC News 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Instead, she contends that the country is nowhere near the “misogynistic theocracy” described in the book, and she warns readers against reacting hysterically to a reality found in fiction. Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Iran is a Shiite Muslim theocracy whereas the Saudi kingdom is Sunni dominated. The Iran nuclear deal that Trump once vowed to tear apart is holding — at least for now 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Assad is fighting a fractured opposition dominated by Islamists, many of whom dream of creating a Sunni theocracy. As Washington ponders Syria strategy, warplanes return to scene of sarin attack 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z It is dominated by hardline Islamist groups who would like to turn the country into a Sunni theocracy. Russia, US and military intervention in Syria: what next after missile strikes? 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom accuses Iran, a Shi'ite Muslim theocracy across the Gulf, of radicalizing and arming some members of its Shi'ite majority population. Bahrain rights groups call for F1 race to be canceled 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The Sunni leaders of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain consider the Shiite theocracy of Iran to be a regional threat to their existence. State Department drops human rights as condition for fighter jet sale to Bahrain 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The predominantly Sunni Arab leaders, particularly the Saudis, are wary of Tehran’s Shiite theocracy. Trump, Palestinian cause are high on agenda of annual Arab League summit 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “Suppressing that wave, once it rises, would be very costly for the theocracy.” Here's one country where hard-liners might not be poised for election success: Iran 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “We opposed and rose against Morsi because we felt that his Muslim Brotherhood wanted to create a theocracy when we wanted more democracy,” he said. Egypt activist out of prison but still only half free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It was floated by former reformist President Mohammad Khatami in a short statement this month before the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought Iran’s theocracy to power. Iran's Supreme Leader rejects calls to release leaders of the 2009 Green Movement protests 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Sure, they’re officially more worried about white nationalism and the fate of NATO, but wave the cape of looming theocracy, and suddenly it’s 2004 all over again. The outsized outcry over Betsy DeVos 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Ramesh, the tour guide, recalled the story of how a political activist who opposed the ruling theocracy was allegedly dropped from the top of the building by security agents for refusing to disclose sensitive information. 50 firefighters killed in Iran as burning high-rise collapses 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z For these reasons and others, public opinion polls around the world consistently show that majorities of people in almost every country prefer democratic systems to dictatorships, absolute monarchies or theocracies. Opinion | Dear Trump: Defending democracy is no vice 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He added that the United States is “not a theocracy” and that “we should respect people’s views and not demand any kind of religious test for holding office.” Can Jeff Sessions, in good faith, hire attorneys with no faith? The AG contender has repeatedly disparaged “secularists” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Secularists sometimes fear that theocracy is right around the corner, but in America God remains uncool. How Kirk Franklin Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gospel 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z His economic policies won him praise from Iran's elite and merchant classes, but brought bitterness from struggling workers seeking greater state handouts. Rafsanjani also faced warnings from the ruling theocracy about pushing too far. Influential former Iranian leader Rafsanjani dies at 82 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Rafsanjani also faced warnings from the ruling theocracy about pushing too far. Influential former Iranian leader Rafsanjani dead at age 82 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Also betrayed: Iranians, whose 2009 Green Revolution in heroic protest of a stolen election Mr. Obama conspicuously failed to endorse for fear of offending the ruling theocracy. Obama’s Fitting Finish 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Iran’s theocracy has tried harsh anti-drug measures, sentencing huge numbers of convicts to death row. 'No walk of society is immune': Iran confronts a growing drug problem 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The Sunni Muslim countries are wary of the Shiite Houthis and their suspected backing by Iran’s Shiite theocracy. ‘Why is the world so quiet?’ Yemen suffers its own cruel losses, far from Aleppo. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z The Sunni Muslim kingdom and its partners are wary of the Shiite Houthis and their suspected ties to Iran’s theocracy. Suicide bomber in Yemen kills at least 48 soldiers, officials there say 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z A decade later, however, he was dismayed at the brutal crackdown against opposition groups and others claiming Ahmadinejad won re-election in June 2009 through vote rigging sanctioned by the ruling theocracy. Influential former Iranian leader Rafsanjani dead at age 82 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The seven-year Taliban theocracy in Afghanistan was coming to a fiery end. Ally, Enemy or Both? Saudi Arabia’s Many Roles in Afghanistan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z A theocracy is a government run by religious authorities claiming divine sanction for their political leadership. Five myths about Puritans 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z That is a profound generational shift in a society of 80 million whose theocracy preaches that a woman’s main purpose in life is to be a wife and mother. More women in Iran are forgoing marriage. One reason? The men aren't good enough 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z That Shiite theocracy is widely perceived to be backing the Shiite Houthi rebels. Airstrikes kill more than 40 and wound scores in Yemeni port city 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z |
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