Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's stance on clerical participation in politics is an implicit rebuke of Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Khomeini’s doctrine of velayat-e faqih.

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  War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS

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• War by Proxy: Iran's Growing Footprint in the Middle East - CSIS www.csis.org CSIS via serper

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• Ruhollah Khomeini entity
• Velayat-e faqih concept