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Considered most loyal to Iran's theocratic regime, the IRCG-AF controls all of Iran's ballistic missiles, which is considered the largest missile arsenal in the Middle East region.
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Around the world, except for within certain theocratic regimes and the Trump White House, June is LGBT Pride Month!
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The story is set in the U.S. after a successful religious coup has resulted in theocratic rule and the loss of fertility among the wives of the wealthy male leaders.
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A peaceful popular movement seemed to have brought the theocratic regime to its knees.
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Critics of the regime in Tehran say the exercise is hardly democratic, given the overweening power of the country's theocratic supreme leader and its influential military institutions like the Revolutionary Guard.
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The same should apply to the theocratic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; the Kingdom does not and cannot speak for all Muslims around the world just because sites Muslims consider sacred are contained within its borders.
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But the perennial tension between the republican and theocratic pillars of the Islamic Republic means there are limits as to how much influence Khamenei can exert.
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In the Islamic republic's theocratic system, the presidency is just one pillar of executive power.
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