Citations:Supreme Leader


 * 1) The head of state and commander-in-chief of the entire armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the authority to dismiss the Iranian president.  The Supreme Leader is also the highest-ranking spiritual leader in Iran.
 * 2) * 1987: William A. Dorman & Mansour Farhang, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06472-0, page 24
 * A major and continuous assignment of these men was to review Western press coverage of Iran and do whatever they could to prevent or minimize negative publicity about Iran and its supreme leader.
 * 1) * 1993: Hussin Mutalib, Islam in Malaysia: From Revivalism to Islamic State?, Singapore University Press, ISBN 9971-69-180-9, page 65
 * Secondly, the leadership of the country comes under the responsibility of a just, knowledgeable, and pious jurisprudent (in this case, The Supreme Leader) whom the majority of people know and legitimises as their leader.
 * 1) * 2007: Tahir Abbas, Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Perspective, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0748625283, page 59
 * As Kepel (2000) has observed, the fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini (the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran) issuing a death penalty against Salman Rushdie as a punishment for his ‘blasphemous’ book The Satanic Verses had a crucial impact on Western perceptions of a distant Islamic world.
 * 1) * 2007: [Netherlands] Scientific Council for Government Policy, Dynamism in Islamic Activism: reference points for democratization and human tights, Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 9053569189, page 67
 * The Supreme Leader is considered to be above political parties and to ‘protect’ the religious state in moral respects, as it were, against the democratic rôle of the elected parliament.