North Korea is essentially a theocracy.

Ironically, it seems that theocratic theory in Iran has led to anti theocracy.

And then you have a third party saying, Vote for us we'll establish a theocracy.

State prosecutors alleged that the party was trying to Islamicize the country and ultimately introduce theocracy.

At stake is a painful choice for Bush to lead America into coexistence with what he considers a repugnant Islamic theocracy.

What Pakistan s military strategists failed to realize was that groups like LET and JuD had local agendas as well converting Pakistan into a theocracy.

Iran may be a self proclaimed theocracy, but it has conducted foreign relations since the 1979 revolution in a rational, if not always emollient, way.

Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini died in 1989 after establishing the Islamic Republic of Iran, the first modern day theocracy, following the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Mass movements in Pakistan have been represented after the Arab uprisings mainly by organizations claiming for some form of theocracy, rather than for a democratic uprising.

Halappanavar s death resulted from the fanatical, atavistic behavior of a Western theocracy, while Indian protesters and lawmakers have upheld the scientific, rationalist ethos of the Enlightenment.

It may well be female students very success and the role of educated women in opposing Iran s theocracy that led the government to seek to reverse the trend.

More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.

Indeed, Egypt s formidably historic task now is to refute the old paradigm according to which the Arab world s only choice is between secular and repressive autocracy or obscurantist and repressive theocracy.

A second lesson of recent events in Iran and Turkey is that the spectrum of government in the Middle East and North Africa runs from autocracy and theocracy to varieties of managed democracy.

Ubiquitous images of Kim Jong il and his father, Kim Il sung, are the official symbols of a secular theocracy based on juche (pronounced choocheh), the Kims contribution to the world s patrimony of totalitarian ideologies.

What that will do is avoid the problem I was talking about earlier, where currently we have political parties presenting democracy as merely a political choice in those societies alongside other choices such as military rule and theocracy.

In so doing, the guardians of secular democracy in effect yield the connection between education and values to fundamentalists, who, you can be sure, have no compunctions about using education to further their values the absolutes of a theocracy.

It is time we took a side the side of the people who want what we want who see our societies, for all their faults, as something to admire who know that they should not be faced with a choice between tyranny and theocracy.

In fact the elections that year would be famously mired in fraud, and the world would witness the bloody repression by the theocracy in power an outcome which apparently shocked Cohen, but was not surprising to Iranians who had lived under 30 years of repression.

With this single error, he has undermined what had appeared to be a robust post revolutionary course for the first and only theocracy in modern history. The cries of God is Great! have now been overtaken by chants of Death to the Dictator! in recent demonstrations in Tehran, Tabriz, Shiraz, and other Iranian cities.