Grand Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Montazeri has passed into the history of the Iranian Revolution as he was, potentially at least, about to create another. Thirty years ago, he was a vital figure in ...

Top Iranian dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a fierce critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was once tapped to become Iran's undisputed number one, is dead, his office says.

Grand Ayatollah Montazeri's grandson Nasser said yesterday his grandfather, who was seen as the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, died in his sleep on Saturday night. His funeral will be ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Iranian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters after the funeral of dissident cleric Grand ...

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 ...

Khomeini was instead followed as supreme leader by the less theologically qualified ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Montazeri - while remaining part of the Islamic establishment - became one of the ...

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 ...

The opposition in Iran has called on supporters to turn out in huge numbers for Monday's funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri. Thousands of people have already been out in the Iranian city ...

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri died in his sleep early Sunday, says grandson Tehran: Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, his grandson said ...