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 ...

QOM, Iran, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Mourners with the opposition movement in Iran chanted anti-government slogans at the Monday funeral for dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. Montazeri, ...

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 ...

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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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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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 ...

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 ...