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 ...

Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who emerged as the spiritual father of its reform movement, died on Sunday. He was 87. For years, Montazeri had accused the ...

Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri, the highest ranking Shiite cleric in Iran and a leading voice of dissent for more than two decades, died Saturday of what his family said was a lingering heart ailment.

"If you're going to ask me questions about my regrets, plan to spend the next month or so in my house!" Those were the words with which Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri greeted me when I interviewed ...

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 ...

Thousands of supporters of Iran’s most senior dissident cleric marched through streets in his hometown Sunday and descended upon Qom, the country’s main theological center, to mourn his passing just ...

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A legacy that will haunt the regime. [ analysis ] The demise of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri brought an important chapter in the history of the Islamic Republic to a close, but may have opened a ...

The death of Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri on Sunday quickly set off protests in Tehran, with students and others championing Montazeri's ideals of liberal reform as well as his ...

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 ...

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to become Iran's supreme leader, has come back from the grave to haunt the Islamic establishment that punished him for openly criticizing the regime ...