nonclerics

The assault enabled Ayatollah Khomeini to further consolidate his power, silence his critics, dispose of the nonclerics in his government, and proceed in the fashioning of the Islamic Republic—meanwhile mobilizing the population to resist.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The assault enabled Ayatollah Khomeini to further consolidate his power, silence his critics, dispose of the nonclerics in his government, and proceed in the fashioning of the Islamic Republic—meanwhile mobilizing the population to resist.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

What the mullahs did not fully realize until recently is that Ahmadinejad and his supporters have little reason to be loyal to Khamenei and other clergymen for the system of velayat-e faqih is closed to nonclerics.

CNN.com 2011

And neglecting the complicated context in which some of these pseudoreligious statements are made - such as an internal Iranian power struggle among clerics and nonclerics - leads to hair-raising but absurd predictions, like Bernard Lewis's confident claim that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad planned to mark an auspicious date on the Islamic calendar

Mises Dailies 2009

And neglecting the complicated context in which some of these pseudoreligious statements are made - such as an internal Iranian power struggle among clerics and nonclerics - leads to hair-raising but absurd predictions, like Bernard Lewis's confident claim that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad planned to mark an auspicious date on the Islamic calendar

Mises Dailies 2009