1.   A Shiite cleric is shown presiding in a matrimonial court where a women seeks a divorce because her husband has decided to take a second wife.

2.   But the arrests, including those of leading Shiite clerics, have added to political and sectarian tensions in a country where Shiites are in the majority.

3.   Faced with an intimidating restriction on his power, Khatami, who is himself a Shiite cleric, will have to move slowly and carefully.

4.   Khansari, who is also a Shiite cleric, acknowledged that he had met with Hezbollah officials during his two-week visit here.

5.   The most prominent person in custody is Sheik Abdelamir al-Jamri, a Shiite cleric who was a member of the dissolved parliament.

6.   The Shiite clerics who rule Iran despise the Sunni Taliban.

7.   A prominent Shiite cleric, Abdul Ameer al-Jamri, was among those arrested last week.

8.   Al-Gallaf, a Shiite cleric, called the request to hold the meeting behind closed doors unconstitutional.

9.   Al-Sader was the third Shiite cleric killed in Iraq in the last year.

10.   And last month, it crushed an anti-government rebellion led by a militant Shiite cleric.