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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri , who died on December 19 aged 87, was one of Iran’s most senior clerics and had for many years been a trenchant critic of the Islamic Republic’s hardline ...

Ayatollah Kadivar discusses the future of the Iranian regime. Dec. 28, 2009 — -- In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar, currently a visiting research professor at America's ...

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 ...

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 today to mourn ...

The most important turning point in the life of Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri came in the late 1980s, when the authorities in Iran brusquely ordered his picture taken down from mosques and ...