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clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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The streets belonged as much to students, feminists, merchants, liberals, and industrial workers as to clerics.
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The 86-year-old cleric wields absolute authority in Iran, though the IRGC has steadily consolidated influence over key mechanisms of power, including the economy, throughout his 36-year rule.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Another cleric, Alireza Panahian, is tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and is described by UANI as a key architect of Iran’s extremist ideology of Mahdism — which promotes the annihilation of Jews and the destruction of Israel as prerequisites for the return of the Hidden Imam.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
The diocese was dominated by clerics who were members of Opus Dei, a very conservative sect of Catholicism, and Prevost, who had to become a Peruvian citizen to become a bishop, was charged with moving it back to the middle.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The 86-year-old cleric wields absolute authority in Iran, though the IRGC has steadily consolidated influence over key mechanisms of power, including the economy, throughout his 36-year rule.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Another cleric, Alireza Panahian, is tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and is described by UANI as a key architect of Iran’s extremist ideology of Mahdism — which promotes the annihilation of Jews and the destruction of Israel as prerequisites for the return of the Hidden Imam.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
The diocese was dominated by clerics who were members of Opus Dei, a very conservative sect of Catholicism, and Prevost, who had to become a Peruvian citizen to become a bishop, was charged with moving it back to the middle.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleric. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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cleric
noun
cler·ic
ˈkler-ik 
: a member of the clergy
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