Beset with its economic woes and with the looming question of finding a successor to its supreme leader, Iran will be unable to capitalize on a leadership vacuum opening up in Iraq’s Shiite clerical establishment. This will hamper Iran’s geopolitical ambitions and ensure Iraq’s strategic independence in the long term. The death of Ayatollah Mahmoud […]
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‘The cultivation of life’
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The Shi’ites’ Faustian pact
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The grand elector Sistani
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