Iranians Mourn Reformist Cleric Grand Ayatollah Montazeri

the clerical establishment as a "dictatorship", saying that the authorities' handling of street unrest after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, "could lead to the fall of the regime". He was an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution but fell out with the Iranian leadership in the 1980s. Montazeri passed away on Sunday in Qom after suffering a cardiac arrest. Videos posted on the internet prior to the funeral appeared to show hundreds of Montazeri's ...
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