The Disenchantment of the Traditional Clergy in Iran

The Shah destroyed all of the former kind of buffers and intermediary sort of classes and elements, social forces that could deflect responsibility and blame on the Shah. So with the white revolution, we see in many ways a consolidation of forms of agribusiness and so on by favored elements of the court and maybe landed families as well. We also see this in terms of the disenchantment of the traditional clergy, in part because their role in the judicial system has been again massively eroded if not like pretty much neutralized.