theocracy

The theocracy feared an insurrection—and met it head-on in January.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

But there are more pressing priorities for Iran's theocracy in this moment.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Iran’s government is an explicit theocracy with the ayatollah, the supreme leader, maintaining both a religious and political role.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

In Westwood — the epicenter of the community, where the eponymous boulevard is lined by storefronts covered in Persian script — the widespread opposition to Iran’s hard-line theocracy is hard to miss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

Their government is a theocracy, the development apparently of what is believed by them to be a new dispensation.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

The pope vowed that the church was not in the business of building theocracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

They came here to escape war, political and religious persecution, lack of opportunity and corrupt systems lead by despotic strongmen or brutal theocracies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

From theocracies to autocracies and, of course, some democracies too, the list is long.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022

Believe it or not, many people who live in them don't want to live in theocracies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2018

They are at bottom two theocracies, the laws and institutions of which rest upon the gods themselves, though the theocratic form is far more prominent in Peru than in Mexico.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert R?ville