But their direct defiance of Mr Khamenei is an unprecedented show of rebellion against how it is practised.
"At the time of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, it was practised widely, especially when men were travelling away from home on business or at war, " he said.
In order to ensure that it remains viable, the community s priorities are to promote its transmission and to obtain its recognition beyond the geographical area in which it is practised.
It is practised in the traditional dance halls of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, spreading the spirit of its community across the globe even as it adapts to new environments and changing times.
Mr Leonard has decided views about the inadequacy of foreign policy as it is currently practised.
The cultural meaning of the practice anyway varies across the belt of Africa from Senegal to Somalia, among Muslims and Christians, where it is widely practised.
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In strictly cash terms, Russia might be well advised to declare defeat on the big-farm front, scaling it back to the few regions in the south-west and around the big cities where it can be practised profitably, and buying more food more cheaply overseas.
The data, released by the UN children's charity and UN population fund on the international day calling for an end to FMG, showed that the younger generation was less vulnerable to female circumcision in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is usually practised.
Many girls will take to prostitution, an activity widely practised though strictly illegal, unless it takes the form of a temporary marriage known as the sigeh.
Now practised as a performing art throughout Korea, it can be seen as a representative Korean folk art.
But while this may sound like a step towards the kind of system practised in many democratic countries, in reality it will not ensure that Hong Kong's policymakers become any more accountable or the civil service any more neutral than they are today.
And it was the cosy, crony capitalism practised by the overseas Chinese, with its murky accounting and bank loans for friends, that allowed so many Asian firms to over-borrow and get into their current mess.
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The whole point of representative democracy, of the kind practised for centuries at Westminster and in most Western democracies, is that it acts as a brake on "wild and irrational decisions", he reasoned.
In Africa and Asia, the colonial rulers never practised democracy, though Britain made ever-so-timid, belated steps towards it in India.
Handed down over centuries from master to pupil, it is the only whistled language in the world that is fully developed and practised by a large community (more than 22, 000 inhabitants).
If they have not practised reading and writing, younger children especially tend to forget much of what they have learned, making it hard to pick up where they left off.
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