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The leader is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and has authority over the national police and morality police.—
Xiaoqian Lin,
CNN Money,
6 July 2026 Rexhep Meidani of Albania visits Kosovo, the first visit ever by an Albanian head of state to the neighboring Yugoslav province; Kosovo is heavily populated by ethnic Albanians.—Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 July 2026 In Iran's theocratic system, Khamenei was not only head of state and leader of a revolutionary movement, but the representative on Earth for Shi'ite Islam's 12th imam, who disappeared in the ninth century.—
Parisa Hafezi,
USA Today,
3 July 2026 Those requirements were carefully crafted to prioritize mission over aesthetics, leaving much of the previous head of state interior layout minimally changed.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
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