1987: William A. Dorman & Mansour Farhang, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference, University of California Press, →ISBN, 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.
1993: Hussin Mutalib, Islam in Malaysia: From Revivalism to Islamic State?, Singapore University Press, →ISBN, 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.
2007: Tahir Abbas, Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Perspective, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, 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.
2007: [Netherlands] Scientific Council for Government Policy, Dynamism in Islamic Activism: reference points for democratization and human tights, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, 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.
