Definition of theocratic
: of, relating to, or being a theocracy
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Dexter Filkins has a superb tour d’horizon of how this theocratic Arab tyrant seized power over the last few years (using torture, naturally).
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His hostility to Iran’s theocratic regime is understandable, but laced with exaggeration.
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The unrest, which was still roiling as Newsweek went to press, marked the third time in three decades that Iranians have demonstrated en masse against the theocratic regime in Tehran.
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Iran is a revolutionary theocratic state committed to spreading religious extremism throughout the Islamic world.
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The demonstrations initially focused on Iran’s poor economy despite its nuclear deal with world powers, but quickly spiraled into chants directly challenging Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and its theocratic government.
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Not standing idly by in the White House while Iranians protested a fixed election in 2009, then advocating a nuclear agreement that bankrolled the theocratic regime’s expansionism and militarism and corruption.
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Liberal social morality is every bit as much of a threat to liberty as the theocratic tendencies of many conservatives.
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The Handmaid’s Tale brought Margaret Atwood’s narrative of a theocratic reproductive dystopia to life onscreen for the first time since 1990.
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