[Throughline] Iran's Supreme Leader and the Politics of Succession

The Islamic Republic of Iran rests on a theological concept with no real precedent in the prior history of Islamic governance: velayat-e faqih, which translates as the "Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist." The doctrine…

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