Biography of Ayatollah Montazeri p1 آیت‌الله منتظری

Iran 29 Azar 88
Dec 20, 2009
یکشنبه 29 آذر ۱۳۸۸

سوگ آیت‌الله منتظری , ۲۹ آذر

He was one of the founders of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 and later was among the most virulent critics of the regime established. Both a political dissident and a highly respected religious figure, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri died on Saturday night, news agencies reported on Sunday. He was 87.

Thousands of Montazeris supporters were travelling to attend his funeral in the Shiite holy city of Qom on Sunday, a moderates website reported.

Meanwhile, opposition supporters gathered in various places in Tehran to pay homage to Montazeri.


As recently as last August, Montazeri had spoken out against Mahmoud Ahmadinejads presidency, qualifying the controversially re-elected leaders rule as dictatorial and predicting that the regime would fail.

But Montazeri was not always such a high-profile opposition figure. He was even, at one point, proposed as a probable successor to founder of the Islamic Republic and first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. A prominent theologian, Montazeri was also current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameneis teacher when Khamenei was a student.

Toward the end of the 1980s, Montazeri expressed opposition to the gradual hardening of the politico-religious regime, speaking out against the execution of dozens of opposition members in January 1988, as well as the fatwa proclaimed against writer Salman Rushdie in February 1989. Those positions would soon cost Montazeri his place in Irans inner power circle.


Since Khomeinis death in June of 1989, Montazeri had resided in the holy city of Qom and lived under house arrest from 1997 to 2003. Once the house arrest was lifted, the cleric resumed more vocal criticism of Iranian policy, seeming to resume his role as spiritual leader of the opposition.

A political system based on force, oppression, changing peoples votes, killing, closure, arresting and using Stalinist and medieval torture, creating repression, censorship of newspapers, interruption of the means of mass communications, jailing the enlightened and the elite of society for false reasons, and forcing them to make false confessions in jail, is condemned and illegitimate, Montazeri wrote recently on the Internet, denouncing the very state he had helped to found.

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