Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Shi’a source of emulation, passed away Sunday morning at the age of 87 in his home in the city of Qom. “He spent long periods of his life in the service of the ...

Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi issued a joint statement in which they pronounced Monday, Dec. 21 as a day of national mourning and called on their supporters to attend the ...

Timing, as the cliché goes, is everything. And in this case it may be right: Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, Iran's most prominent dissident cleric died at his home in the holy city of Qom in the ...

Further evidence that opposition to the Iranian government remains strong: Tens of thousands turned out for the funeral of a leading dissident cleric — Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri — in the ...

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Heavy clashes have been reported outside an Isfahan mosque where a memorial ceremony was due to be held in honor of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a founding architect of the Iranian ...

Scott Lucas reacts to the passing of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died in his sleep this morning: Montazeri, 87, was one of the most prominent clerics in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ...

Itried to visit Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri once. He was 75 years old and had just been placed under house arrest. It was November 1997. My interpreter and I drove through the streets of the holy ...

Iran is reacting to the durability of an opposition movement seeking government reform as if it were a police state, U.S. State Department officials said. Police and plainclothes security forces ...

Reporting from Tehran — Thousands of supporters of Iran’s most senior dissident cleric marched through streets in his hometown and descended upon the country’s main theological center Sunday to mourn ...

Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was born in 1922 in Najafabad, a town in the province of Isfahan in central Iran. His father, Ali, was a farmer who also taught reading and interpretation of the Qur'an to ...