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The slogan of the support for the oppressed followed by the confiscation of the properties belonging to the members of the old regime, the creation of Construction Jihad (Holy War) and the seven-member body for the allocation of housing in the first days of the Islamic Republic and most importantly Iraq's war against Iran caused that class mobility would increase to an unprecedented degree and provide the groundwork for change in class structure in the second decade of the Revolution.
Particular interaction which has existed between religion and the state in Iran and the Middle East has been affected in various times by varying external and internal factors and this causes class structure to take a particular shape; one that is entirely different from the post• industrial Revolution's class structure.
From the perspective of class analysis, the interaction between religion and the state in Iran comprised three common but necessarily coordinated elements: 1) Both of them were sources of power; 2) Both of them were factors for class mobility; 3) Both of them acted within specific structures.
C) Consttuction of a Class Called Clergy with High Mobility Although most clergy have emphasized following religious interpretations that a particular class called clergy does not exist, the study of history of Iran's political developments and especially the interaction between the state and society indicates that clerics as the, intermediaries between the state and society have consistently enjoyed a , specific social status and this has provided them with special economic position.