Khomeini's doctrine demanded the most learned jurist. His successors gave Iran a man with no published jurisprudence, no emulants, and an army behind him. This is not Wilayat al-Faqih. This is Wilayat al-Haras al-Thawri.

from the rule of the jurisprudent (Velayat-e Faqih) to the rule — in-practice of the guardsman.