- and the group's multiple and sometimes competing goals tied to these different identities. Hezbollah's ideological commitment to Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary doctrine of velayat-e fagih (guardianship of the jurist), which holds that a Shiite Islamic cleric should serve as the supreme head

l, in the Islamic Republic of Iran all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political. Exhibit A is the revolution's father, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Like all Shiite clerics aspiring to become a "source of emulation" (marja'’-e taglid), Khomeini spent the first part of his career meticulously exam

-- and the group's multiple and sometimes competing goals tied to these different identities. Hezbollah's ideological commitment to Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary doctrine of velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the jurist), which holds that a Shiite Islamic cleric should serve as the supreme head o

8 - when reports by human rights organizations say thousands of members of political opposition groups were executed on the orders of supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini." Politico adds that "the case is particularly sensitive" for Iran because Raisi "has long stood accused of being a central figure in the massacre.

The Sunni-Shia conflict, which now seems to permeate the politics=of the region, has reduced Shia Iran to the status of a sectarian power. A=atollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution whose vision was o= Iran at the forefront of the entire Islamic world, would be turning in hi= grave. The Assad regi