How Does Your Textbook Characterize the Relationship of Iran's Clerics

question 43

Multiple Choice

How does your textbook characterize the relationship of Iran's clerics with its most sensitive ministries?

• A) While the leaders of these ministries appear to be highly trained technocrats, they are fairly powerless individuals dependent on a powerful clergy.
• B) The clergy clearly dominates Iran's bureaucracy, with clerical members controlling not only the top cabinet positions but the clear majority of subordinate positions within them.
• C) The clergy is prevented from holding cabinet positions in these ministries, although they dominate and control the rest of Iran's ministries.
• D) Iran's clerics are confined to working for only these five ministries and they are clearly subordinate to the ministers of these cabinet departments.
• E) The clergy is not allowed to work in any of these ministries or the rest of Iran's bureaucracy.

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