: a Muslim and especially a religious scholar or cleric who has studied Islamic law and doctrine
—often used as an honorific title
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When popular protests swept the country in 1979, leading to the shah’s overthrow, some Jews fled before the mullahs consolidated power.
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Roya Hakakian, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025
Where was this sense of urgency when the mullahs were attempting to deceive U.N. inspectors while sandbagging U.S. efforts to diplomatically scuttle the country’s nuclear efforts?
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
And an intense American propaganda campaign through social media and other channels should continuously highlight the calamitous and corrupt rule of the mullahs.
—Eric Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2025
Forbidding the mullahs’ medieval theocratic regime, the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terror, atomic arms, is not just something that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and President Donald Trump want.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 26 June 2025
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Roya Hakakian, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025
Where was this sense of urgency when the mullahs were attempting to deceive U.N. inspectors while sandbagging U.S. efforts to diplomatically scuttle the country’s nuclear efforts?
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
And an intense American propaganda campaign through social media and other channels should continuously highlight the calamitous and corrupt rule of the mullahs.
—Eric Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2025
Forbidding the mullahs’ medieval theocratic regime, the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terror, atomic arms, is not just something that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and President Donald Trump want.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 26 June 2025
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“Mullah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mullah. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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