The Outfit of Shiite Clergy as a Political Significant in the Contemporary Iran

The outfit of clergy in our society has been gradually given a symbolic identity and changed into a symptom. So it is considered as a significant referring to some significations. Being inspired by Saussure’s semiologic approach, the author of the article has endeavored to make the “synchronic” concept understood among people, groups and societies through the interpretation of its “diachronic” meaning in the three traditional, transformational and modern statuses of clergy in the contemporary Iran.The findings of research demonstrates that within the transverse coordinate and focusing on the level of religions and communities, the outfit of Shiite clergy is not the outfit of people who are mediator of God and human and in charge of grouping ceremonies and idolatries. Since In Islam against the other religions, there exist grouping idolatries with no obstacle and intermediary between God and human and within the longitudinal coordinate from Safavid until Islamic republic period, this outfit has been considered a political and cultural significant stating extensive revolutions in the relational pattern of Shiite clergy and people.