Grand Ayatollah Montazeri has died
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Top dissident Iranian cleric dies One of Iran’s most prominent dissident clerics, Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87. Hoseyn Ali Montazeri was a moving spirit in the 1979 revolution which created Iran’s Islamic state, and was at one stage set to become its leader. One of Shia Islam’s most respected figures, he was also a leading critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The BBC’s Jon Leyne says the death comes at a crucial time in a standoff between the government and opposition. Iran’s rulers will now fear the opposition may attempt a big turnout for his funeral and other ceremonies marking his death, especially in the run-up to the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura on 27 December, our correspondent says. Thorn The cleric’s son told the BBC that his father had died of natural causes. DEFIANT CLERIC |
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