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    Iran's top dissident cleric Montazeri dies

    This is a big blow for moderates in Iran. He was the most high profile critic of the Mullah regime.

    From BBC

    Iran's dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dies

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    Originally posted by tinymarae View Post
    Iran's top dissident cleric Montazeri dies

    This is a big blow for moderates in Iran. He was the most high profile critic of the Mullah regime.

    From BBC

    Iran's dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dies
    I wouldnt call his death a big blow to the opposition. His death is a bigger blow to the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic and to genuine and authentic Shi’a jurisprudence in Iran. As many other Iranians have commented about him since his death, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri represented the true spirit of the Iranian revolution that failed to materialize in reality. What Iran got instead was a vicious dictatorship, far worse than the regime of the Shah. Not only is the Islamic Republic a dictatorship, but it is not a genuine Shi’a theocracy. Dozens of Shi’a theologians have been assassinated or executed in Iran since 1979. They’ve polarized and politicized the Shi’a clergy in Iran, with the effect of polluting religion there. With Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s death, it is the Islamic Republic and Shi’aism that has lost out. The Iranian opposition, the ‘Green movement’, will mourn his death. But his death will only galvanise this opposition further and the desire for secularism that the majority wants.

    Iran has fewer and fewer genuine Ayatollahs left. Only numerous opportunists in the guise of learned men of religion.

    Grand Ayatollah Hossein Montazeri i believe will be more dear to Iranians now in death than perhaps he was when he was alive. His memory and legacy as a true advocate of rights of the people is a source of strength for Iran's opposition. Just like other statesmen of the past, like Dr Mossadegh.

    May the great soul, rest in peace.

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