Western policymakers and political pundits mistakenly interpret Iran’s relationships with the rest of the globe, particularly the United States and Israel, as well as with the broader Islamic world, through the lens of the Shia–Sunni divide. However, the reality of Iran’s theocracy is far more complex and far more sinister than that.
The Islamic Republic’s ruling theology is not mainstream Twelver Shia Islam. Twelver Shia Islam, followed by roughly 85 percent of Shia Muslims worldwide and recognized as Iran’s official state religion, has been transformed into a controversial fusion of apocalypticism, political mysticism, and quasi-divine claims of authority that orthodox Shia scholars have explicitly rejected.
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