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On June 4, 2011 Hojatoleslam Mehdi Taeb explained that by exposing Mashaei as the culprit, blame and pressure on Ahmadinejad would diminish.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi said.
ProWomanProLife » This would be funny if it weren’t so stupid 2010
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On June 4, 2011 Hojatoleslam Mehdi Taeb explained that by exposing Mashaei as the culprit, blame and pressure on Ahmadinejad would diminish.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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On June 4, 2011 Hojatoleslam Mehdi Taeb explained that by exposing Mashaei as the culprit, blame and pressure on Ahmadinejad would diminish.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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Those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence, ethics, and philosophy and usually teach in Islamic seminaries. [citation needed] The next lower clerical rank is Hojatoleslam wal-muslemin.
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On June 4, 2011 Hojatoleslam Mehdi Taeb explained that by exposing Mashaei as the culprit, blame and pressure on Ahmadinejad would diminish.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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However the desperation of the Ulema in face of the "white" assault brings the formation of "penal battalions" led by former officers and we first meet Captain Rosencreuntz supervising a bridge demolition in face of relentless enemy attack, when he is arrested by religious commissary aka "Hojatoleslam" Nikita, beaten and thrown in a car trunk to be led to Ayatollah Commissar Barko for summary judgment.
"Escape From Byzantium" by Mark Mellon (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu and Mihir Wanchoo) Liviu 2009
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Hojatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar, a prominent cleric who was imprisoned in Iran in the late 1990s for challenging the entire concept of supreme clerical rule, wrote in an editorial March 8 on the opposition Jaras website: Khamenei is now following a policy of 'either with me or against me.'
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Geneive Abdo 2011
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Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president and powerful cleric, complained in an open letter to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, about corruption allegations Ahmadinejad raised against his family during a televised debate last week.
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Hojatoleslam (from Arabic: حجة الإسلام ḥujjatu l-Islām) is an honorific title meaning "authority on Islam" or "proof of Islam", given to Twelver Shī'ah clerics.
Booman Tribune 2009
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