There are only two countries in the world that automatically give places in their parliaments to clerics.
One is Iran, that bastion of religious brutality where the morality police can arrest women for failing to wear the hijab in the prescribed manner and, as in the case of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month, they may die in custody.
The other country? That'll be the United Kingdom, where 26 bishops are guaranteed seats in the House of Lords.
