The Clerics and the Recent Situation

If Shi’ite clerics as an active force in socio-political arenas of Iran, specially during the last one hundred and fifty years, are still willing to play an effective role in the current and the coming processes of the society, they are required to acquire more knowledge and dominance on the recent situations and conditions. “Recent situation” in terms of the traits pointed out in this paper is the result of a number of developments which have occurred at the global, structural, and communicational levels and left their consequences on the ‘clerics’ and the ‘addresses’, and the relationships between them. In addition to the comprehensive realization of the recent situation, the clerics need to revise their role, function, and traditional and current procedures through detecting their essence and with the adoption of some voluntary, conscious and on- time changes, prepare to manage the necessary developments in the environment and the outside.