Not to mention the Ayatollah has had a long standing fatwa against the procurement of nuclear weapons.
* on the former, NT has an example of the crowd who want to stone someone, instead being convinced to leave; and the latter NT contains the origin of the phrase "to go the extra mile", which is about helping foreign soldiers occupying your territory and ordering you to help them (Matthew 5:41)
There are thousands of Ayatollah, you mean specifically the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Catholic Church used to be powerful, but it too has had mismatches between even ex cathedra teachings and what people actually do: see also US politics having occasional arguments about if being Catholic disqualified someone from politics because they submitted to the Bishop of Rome over the people.
And that's without the way government leaders often tell bold faced lies (and less obvious lies, too).