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...So in reality, after the reformists have been barred from politics with reformist President Mohammad Khatami succeeded by figurehead of the supremacists, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, in the June 2005 elections, the Supreme Leader represents a conservative camp determined to keep controlling a state corrupted by power for as long as possible.
"Divine victory" was the description of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah of the 34-day war of July/August 2006 when a few thousand of his Hizbullah fighters brought Israel's vaunted military to a standstill. Lebanon's most renowned Shi'ite cleric stood before a sea of yellow Hizbullah flags on Sept. 22 in a rare moment of triumph; and it reverberated throughout the Middle East. Nasrallah is Khamenei's representative in Lebanon. His Hizbullah was established shortly after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in mid-1982 as an offshore of Iran's Ja'fari Shi'ite theocracy. At one time in the early days of Hizbullah, Nasrallah and some of his colleagues called for turning Lebanon into a Ja'fari Shi'ite theocracy, a branch of Iran's theocracy which was to become universal - i.e., ruling over the world - just before al-Mahdi's return to Earth.
Ja'fari Shi'ism now is suffused with a culture of resistance, an identity which finds spiritual meaning...
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