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Tehran-based cleric Ahmad Montazeri

Tehran Jails Montazeri’s Son for Revealing Father’s Dissent

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 28, 2016 | World

London- Ahmad Montazeri, son of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who for decades was the right-hand man to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, was sentenced to jail for 21 years for releasing a decades-old tape in which his father...

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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March 15, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah)

1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials

by Adel al-Salmi | Aug 31, 2016 | World

London- Heated controversy sparked-off 20 days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the regime-carried death sentences in 1988. Montazeri’s controversial audio...

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Opinion: Iran Needs to Bury Khomeini’s Ghost

by Amir Taheri | Aug 19, 2016 | Opinion

More than 17 years after his death, the man who led the mullahs to power in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini, is still at the center of the post-revolution debate that has divided Iranians to the point of inciting some to violence against each other. Last week the...