However, petitioner overlooks the fact that it is his Church who is requiring him to resign his positions if he does not tithe.

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But this argument overlooks the fact that all the candidates for the Qom-based Assembly of Experts must be clerics, and moreover clerics approved by the Council of Guardians.

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