Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks earlier Major General Mohammed Vali Gharani, who was army chief of staff briefly under the revolutionary government, had been shot down outside his home by three unknown attackers. But Motahari's killing was especially ominous, since he was a member of the Revolutionary Council, a group of clergymen and other figures who report to the revolution's spiritual leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the provisional government of Prime Minister Bazargan. The names of the members of the Revolutionary Council have never been revealed for fear of endangering their lives...
...panel of revolution aries appointed to watch over the country's internal security, had taken over the government of France. Under the pressures of war from Britain, The Netherlands, Austria and Prussia, and the threat of civil war in the provinces, the Committee condemned hundreds of aristocrats, clergymen and ordinary folk to their death on charges of plotting counterrevolutionary activities. Justice was rough, swift and harsh. Wit nesses were summoned at the discretion of the courts, defendants were refused the right of counsel, and verdicts were limited to acquittal or death. The rattle of the tumbrels, the two-wheeled...
...religious leaders, such as Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, have wide powers to advise the faithful on the presumed will of the "Hidden Imam." Sunni religious scholars, the ulama, have less authority, though both branches of Islam consider their leaders to be teachers and sages rather than ordained clergymen in the Western sense...
...board's decision was reached only after hearings in eleven cities, where testimony was taken on the moral issues from 197 witnesses-ordinary citizens as well as noted scientists and clergymen. The most negative expert, Protestant Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey, saw an "irremovable possibility" that physical or psychological damage might be inflicted on IVF children. A number of scientists, though not against IVF, felt that more research with nonhuman embryos was necessary. So far only a handful of IVF studies has been done with higher primates...
...street marshals provided by Khomeini's amoeba-like organization. In one particularly grim example last week, a mob at the University of Tehran grabbed General Tagi Latifi, a police officer, from his car, screaming, "Kill him!" He was beaten senseless before being rescued by a group of clergymen...