Since the beginning of 1979, it has often been said that the Shiite religion, like the ephemeral French Republic of 1792 is "one and indivisible". Nothing could be further from the truth. Those in power do not represent the elite of the hierarchy. Narrow-minded and mediocre, they are as far removed as it is possible to be from the noble ideas of the Prophet. They are ignorant of essential political, economic and social realities of the day, but nonetheless they claim to legislate.


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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Quotes

Since the beginning of 1979, it has often been said that the Shiite religion, like the ephemeral French Republic of 1792 is one and indivisible....

Since the beginning of 1979, it has often been said that the Shiite religion, like the ephemeral French Republic of 1792 is one and indivisible....

Since the beginning of 1979, it has often been said that the Shiite religion, like the ephemeral French Republic of 1792 is one and indivisible....

Since the beginning of 1979, it has often been said that the Shiite religion, like the ephemeral French Republic of 1792 is one and indivisible....