1.   And both are sworn to preserve the Islamic republic.

2.   An Islamic republic was established with religious strictures on daily life.

3.   As a leader of the international community, the United States can support reformist change without appeasing the Islamic republic.

4.   Both are active in a society that promotes the merger of Dagestan and Chechnya into a single, independent Islamic republic.

5.   Can the United States now build on this historic, but still fragile, event by improving its own sour relations with the Islamic republic?

6.   Can the United States now build on this historic, but still fragile, event by improving its own bad relations with the Islamic republic?

7.   Committed to installing an Islamic republic, the group has tried to isolate the Algerian government by driving foreigners out of the country.

8.   Drivers honked their horns and people danced in the streets, actions considered unorthodox in the Islamic republic.

9.   Easing sanctions against Iran could help empower moderates in the Islamic republic with which the U.S. can deal.

10.   In Iran, a strict Islamic republic, the insistence on female modesty means that women may not even enter hotel pools.