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Jiang says the passage is paradoxical because Brunetto is grouped with famous clerics, poets, and men of letters who are still damned for the same sin.
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Clerics
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "that my company has clerics and men of letters and of fame and all were stained by one same sin upon the earth."
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Iran is described as a dual system split between religious clerical authority and the secular government.
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Jiang says Iran differs from Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan because its clerical order and Shi'a mission give it a faith-based resilience that is difficult to corrupt or terrify.
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Jiang says Iran's decentralized religious authority means that even if the center is hit, local clerical power can keep resistance alive the way Iraq could not.
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"that my company has clerics and men of letters and of fame and all were stained by one same sin upon the earth."
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"...You know, he's saying that with me are men who are clerics and men who are poets and men who are extremely successful, okay?..."
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"...which is the government. So it's a government, but the Islamic clerics are at the very top, and this is the dual identity of..."
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"...first is faith. These people are Shia and their leadership are clerics. And it's hard for Americans to imagine this, but these clerics who..."
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"believe that the Rezaa, the 12th Imman, will come back, the Mahdi, and will defeat the Antichrist, which which is America, okay? So these..."
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"uh iran if you talk to any american military experts they'll tell you like like we've never figured out how to actually land forces..."
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"brain when you look at direction the burayauate uh where do you really want arrive in to iran because you know where are uh..."
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"...with shit, I could not see if he were lay or cleric."
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"...what shades are these and tell me if they all or clerics those tonsured ones who circle on our left and he to me..."
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"...that it's a theocracy. It's a religious government. It's run by clerics called the mullahs, in theory. And then there's a parallel system. A..."
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"...a monarchy. Okay? A theocracy just means that you're ruled by clerics who represent God. The monarchy is a king who represents God. And..."
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"...impressive. They were killing these scientists, these generals, these officials, these clerics in their homes. And so that showed you the extent of the..."
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