What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement.
The Iranian theocracy emerged in the 1979 revolution, although that event itself drew from far older currents shaped by the early caliphates, the Safavid consolidation of Shiite authority, and a regional memory in which governance by divine will remains the highest political aspiration, especially when articulated through clerical rule, which fused mosque, court, and sword into a single apparatus of control.
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