Definition of "ayatollahs" []

• Plural form of ayatollah. (noun)

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• "Anything we can do to save our own economy, revitalize the envrionment, and spite the ayatollahs is win-win-win."
• "This is a warning from Basheer al-Najafi - one of the four main ayatollahs in the Shiite religious leadership which includes grand ayatollah Ali Sistani – that security conditions are worsening in several cities in southern Iraq amid reports of clashes between Shiite militias and the British troops in the region."
• "Thus with the return of the Democratic Party to the White House and the US Congress, the nuclear nonproliferation 'ayatollahs' - as the group is often called by those who are on their cross-hairs - could consider to be back in business."