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Ali Khamenei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1981, after the assasination of Mohammad Ali Rajai, Ayatollah Khamenei was elected President of Iran by a landslide vote in the Iranian presidential election, October 1981 and became the first cleric to serve in the office. Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی حسینیخامنه‌ای; born July 15, 1939) is the Supreme Leader of Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei studied Islamic philosophy and became a teacher of this subject. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_Khamenei   (487 words)

Iran News - Dissident Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Montazeri, freed Montazeri, who was put under house arrest for criticizing the regime, is to be freed from five years of house arrest this week official sources said, promising a new boost to Iran's embattled reformist. Iran's oldest dissident cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in the line to lead the country after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, is seen in his car after being freed from five years of house arrest 30 January 2003 in the holy city of Qom, about 120kms south of Tehran. Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 80, Iran's most-senior dissident cleric holds a copy of the Koran, Islam's holy book, 29 January 2003, at his home while under house arrest in the holy city of Qom, 120 kilometers south of Tehran. www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=14068&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs   (970 words)

030128cleric.txt Montazeri's son, Amhad, said that the ayatollah's health had improved since hearing the announcement and that telephone calls had flooded in with well-wishers requesting to visit his father and pay their respects. Montazeri has been confined to his home in Qom, 80 miles southwest of Tehran, since November 1997 after saying that Khamenei was not competent to issue religious rulings. Montazeri was later put under house arrest for challenging Khomeini's successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/030Compecon/Iran/030128cleric.txt   (461 words)

IranianVoice.org - Montazeri Calls for Elections in Iran Montazeri is one of a few grand ayatollahs, the most senior theologians of the Shiite Muslim faith. Montazeri was placed under house arrest in 1997 after telling students that Khamenei was incompetent to rule. By then Montazeri's health had deteriorated and the move was believed to have been prompted by fears of an uprising if Montazeri were to die while under restrictions. www.iranianvoice.org /article1146.html   (459 words)

Dissident cleric rails against Iran's system - Boston.com - Middle East - News Montazeri helped develop the political system in Iran, which is based on a theory called the "rule of the jurisprudent" that says clerics should directly supervise political life. Montazeri was hailed as "the fruit of my life" by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual father of the 1979 Islamic revolution, who designated him as his successor. Montazeri was among leaders who endorsed the 444-day occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, when radical Islamic students held 52 hostages. www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/20/dissident_cleric_rails_against_irans_system_1116583418?mode=PF   (646 words)

The Middle East Journal, Volume 55, Number 1 Montazeri turned to Khomeini to voice his criticism, but by then the leader of the revolution was gravely ill and had lost most of his critical faculties. Along the way, Montazeri deplores what he sees as deviations from the intent of the drafters of the 1979 Constitution, a document he was instrumental in creating. The image of Montazeri as a genuine man of religion served him well among the people but weakened his hand in the high-stakes power politics of the ruling clerical circles. 209.196.144.55 /html/full551.html   (7282 words)

Appeal for action - IRAN: Update February 2003: Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri - Amnesty International Prisoner of conscience Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was freed from house arrest on 29 January 2003. Please write, urging that all restrictions imposed on Grand Ayatollah Montazeri be lifted immediately, and stating that the use of house arrest against individuals for the non-violent expression of their conscientiously held beliefs violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (to which Iran is a state party). Grand Ayatollah Montazeri had criticized the severe treatment of dissidents, including torture and incommunicado detention, and the mass executions of political prisoners. www.web.amnesty.org /web/wwa.nsf/8764c1a29cfd135f80256a3800423470/9edeab335b3683d38025690a004a3687!OpenDocument   (334 words)

Sidelined Ayatollah Preaches Moderation (washingtonpost.com) Iran's dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was freed from house arrest in January. Montazeri said he grew troubled as the clerical class assumed greater and greater authority while Iran became more isolated internationally. QOM, Iran -- Ayatollah Ali Meshkini stood erect in the pulpit of this holy city's central mosque, delivering the political portion of his Friday sermon by engaging the 3,000 worshippers in a familiar volley of call and response. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A54263-2003Nov17.html   (668 words)

IPersians Boards - Montazeri Cyber-War Montazeri, 79, who had been chosen to succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic republic, has been living under house arrest in Qom, south of Tehran, ever since he was forced to resign weeks before Khomeini's death in 1989. Montazeri decided to intervene to prevent the killing of 2,800 to 3,800 men by writing a letter to Khomeini in which he appealed for compassion. Dissident cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader, has published his memoirs on the Internet, provoking a cyber war with the leadership in Tehran. boards.ipersians.com /showthread.php?t=4511   (342 words)

[ www.radiofarda.com ] Ayatollah Montazeri's classroom in Qom was attacked and his library was ransacked my mobs in October 1997 after he criticized the Supreme Leader. Montazeri's son, Ahmad, tells Radio Farda that the medical team sent last week from Tehran said living for five years under house arrest has worsened his father's health. Ahmad Montazeri said his father's seizures have gone away, but he is too weak and sleepy. www.radiofarda.com /transcripts/topstory/2003/01/20030116_1530_0753_1051_EN.asp   (792 words)

Islamica Community Forums - Iran Cleric Rips Islamic Establishment Montazeri, once expected to become Iran's supreme ruler, was freed Wednesday after five years of house arrest for criticizing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the successor to the leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Ayatollah Montazeri might turn out, in retrospect, to be the greatest hero of the Iranian revolution, the man who stood by his word, the man who protested — in the greatest tradition of all humanitarians — against the ferocious executions of Khomeini's opponents and who refused, always, to bow to his oppressors. Ayatollah Montazeri wrote a letter to Khomeini, expressing his revulsion — a letter intercepted by the leader's son Ahmed — and from that moment his role as successor to Ayatollah Khomeini was cancelled. www.islamicaweb.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=7961   (1662 words)

Shia News Asia Agha Hossein Ali Montazeri's memoirs published on web Montazeri, 79, who had been chosen to succeed Agha Khomeini, founder of the Islamic republic, has been living under house arrest in Qom, south of Tehran, ever since he was forced to resign weeks before Khomeini's death in 1989. Montazeri said he decided to intervene to prevent the killing of 2,800 to 3,800 men by writing a letter to Khomeini in which he appealed for compassion. Dissident cleric Agha Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader, dropped a political bombshell this week by publishing his memoirs on the Web, sparking a cyber war with the leadership in Tehran. www.shianews.com /hi/asia/news_id/0000573.php   (375 words)

THE IRANIAN: Iranian of the day Montazeri, 80, was once the designated heir of the leader of Iran's 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but was passed over in 1988 after criticising the Islamic regime. Montazeri," the Jomhuri-e-Eslami and Keyhan wrote in unison. TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran's one-time supreme leader-in-waiting, will "soon" be released from house arrest amid concerns over his health, two prominent conservative newspapers. www.iranian.com /PhotoDay/2003/January/mont.html   (128 words)

FOR- Fellowship Magazine -An Africana View of Progressive American Islam Montazeri: I have always advocated the governance of religious jurists because I truly believe that according to Islamic teachings, only a fair-minded and pragmatic legal expert with proven managerial skills is qualified for the leadership of an Islamic country. Montazeri: The best approach to creating a constructive atmosphere for interfaith dialogue and interaction among leaders of the monotheistic traditions is through emphasis on the unity of God, working for justice, and opposition to human idols. However Montazeri’s uncompromising criticism of the government’s performance (particularly the eight-year war with Iraq and the 1988 massacre of political prisoners) led to his forced resignation in the spring of 1989. www.forusa.org /fellowship/sept-oct-04/alizadeh.html   (3456 words)

030204cleric.txt Montazeri's return to public life gives reformers a patriarch of nearly legendary stature -- a rarefied mix of Islamic scholarship, political victimhood and revolutionary history as the protege-turned-pariah of the uprising's leader, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Montazeri's son warned he would hold Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, personally responsible if his father died under guard. The twin landmarks -- Montazeri's release last week and his immediate embrace by pro-democracy champions -- could reshape the struggle for Iran's political future as the nation commemorates the 24th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution. courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/030Compecon/Iran/030204cleric.txt   (765 words)

Brief on Iran, No. 789 Montazeri, one of Shiite Muslims' most senior theologians, crossed Iran's Islamic government last week when he issued a statement questioning the authority of the nation's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The director of the school, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, played a powerful role in the first years of Islamic rule in Iran. Speaking in Qom, mullah Ali Meshkini, the head of the Assembly of Experts, emphasized upon the leadership of Khamenei, but admitted that Khamenei (mullahs’ supreme leader) was not qualified to be the Marja'-e Taqlid (source of emulation). www.iran-e-azad.org /english/boi/07891124_97.html   (736 words)

GN Online: Iran clerics demand dissident Montazeri's release Montazeri's 1997 attack on the credentials of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led to the closure of his religious school, an attack by rightist gangs on his office in Qom, south of Tehran, and his house arrest. Montazeri demanded limits on the power of the supreme leader, whose authority extends to much of Iranian life, arguing he must be subject to the law and the will of the people. Montazeri, one of Iran's highest-ranking theologians, was once due to succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but the Islamic Republic's founder dismissed him as heir apparent after rows over the treatment of political prisoners and other issues. www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=22489   (586 words)

Aljazeera.Net - Iranian clerics voice election doubts Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and Grand Ayatollah Yusef Saanei also voiced their pessimism over the prospect for a free and fair poll on 17 June. Once tapped as the successor to revolutionary leader Khomeini, Montazeri says he fell from grace after he became too openly critical of political and cultural restrictions. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iranian Shia cleric english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/C8E1D364-6ABA-4290-8E21-320A3774C60F.htm   (685 words)

DFN: What Montazeri said Montazeri: The right of oversight which the Guardian Council uses to reject the candidacy of advocates of reform or opponents of the regime is a right which conflicts with the text of the Constitution. Montazeri: The main and principal role of men of religion is to provide intellectual and moral guidance to the people and clarification of the teachings of Islamic shari’a — to attempt to guide society towards moral rectitude and to promote social justice. Montazeri: A just and stable regime of government is achieved by the people electing and accepting such a regime. bobsonwong.com /dfn/voices/iran/montazeri.htm   (2003 words)

i_dssdnt Montazeri has been confined to his house in the holy city of Qom since the middle of last year. Khamenei accused him of treason and, days later, hard-liners attacked Montazeri's home and office in Qom, forcing him to flee under police protection. Montazeri was once heir apparent to the late menic.utexas.edu /~bennett/__344/i_dssdnt.htm   (168 words)

IranExpert: Iran's most senior dissident cleric calls for response to demands to lift his house arrest Hossein Ali Montazeri was in line to succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader until a few months before Khomeini died of cancer in 1989. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 81, has been confined to his home in the holy city of Qom, 125 kilometers (78 miles) southwest of Tehran, since November 1997 when he said Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not competent to issue religious rulings. Montazeri's statement came after Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri, a senior reformist cleric, called on top religious leaders in Qom to intervene to lift the house arrest. www.iranexpert.com /2003/montazeri20january.htm   (532 words)

News Montazeri Himself one of the Major Architect of the " Supreme Leadership Under High Theocratic Leader " in Khebregan (Notables) Parliament After teh Revolution Suggested that the Supreme Leadership Should be Both Elective and the Leader Should be Responsible to His Acts Which is Not True in the Case of Present Supreme Leader Mr. News: January 27, 2003 _ Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, A Prominent Religious Dissident Was Released From the House Incarceration After 5 years. Montazeri Was the Heir to Supreme Leadership After Ayatolla Khomeini When He was Deposed for his Protest to Mass Execution of Political Prisoners After Iran-Iraq War. www.jebhemelli.net /news/2003/01_January/Ayatollah_Montazeri/news.htm   (289 words)

ecoi.net - Focus countries » Iran » Opposition (Clerics) Her husband (Montazeri’s son-in-law) Hadi Hashemi, was arrested in June as part of a crackdown on supporters of Ayatollah Montazeri in the Central province of Isfahan. Montazeri was formerly the designated successor of the late Spiritual Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, who subsequently became an outspoken critic of the Supreme Leader (see Section 2.a.). In November 2003, security agents briefly arrested two sons of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the dissident cleric released from house arrest in January (see Section 1.d. www.ecoi.net /doc/en/IR/content/8/2035-3935   (2034 words)

Reflections On Iran’s Prison System During The Montazeri Years (1985-1988) Montazeri was and is an idealist for whom power is for the sake of justice, fairness, and morality in an Islamic context, as he envisions it. By the 1980s, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was already considered an old hand revolutionary, a student and confidant of Khomeini from before the revolution, and one of the architects of the IRI after 1979. Montazeri was not a power-hungry political activist who would sacrifice all else for the sake of holding on to power. www.payvand.com /news/05/may/1183.html   (4098 words)

Petition awaiting more signatories to help lift Montazeri's house arrest Montazeri, 79, was once named to succeed the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini. Press reports said the detainees may have been in cahoots with Hadi's brother, Mehdi, a pro-Montazeri activist who was executed in 1986 after being sentenced to death by SCC for allegedly conspiring against the Islamic regime. The reformist daily Tose'eh quoted an MP from Najafabad, the birthplace of Montazeri, as saying, "The letter is to be addressed to the head of the Supreme National Security Council which had ordered the continuation of his house arrest." www.payvand.com /news/01/jun/1108.html   (304 words)

[Islam-Online- Top News] Montazeri had been due to succeed the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader but was pushed aside in March 1989 after accusations that his home was a "nest of plotters" against the regime. But Montazeri has remained a leading dissident figure, whose name was heard Tuesday in slogans shouted by a huge crowd that welcomed Khatami to the central city of Isfahan. Montazeri has been under house arrest in the holy city of Qom, subject to the jurisdiction of the hardline Special Court for Clergy (SCC), since 1989. www.islamonline.net /iol-english/dowalia/news-18-11/topnews8.asp   (602 words)

Freed Ayatollah Again Makes Voice Heard Khatami is a conciliator, Ayatollah Montazeri is overtly hostile to the conservative clerical establishment. Paradoxically, Ayatollah Montazeri was one of the architects of the clauses in the Constitution calling for ultimate rule by a single supreme leader. But even when Ayatollah Montazeri was under house arrest, many of his students kept in touch with him from the roof of the house next door while he was in the garden below. www.hvk.org /hvk/articles/0203/38.html   (1229 words)

IRAN: FREEING OF DISSIDENT CLERIC MAY BOOST REFORMISTS’ CAUSE Montazeri was once designated heir to the leader of the 1979 revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but was passed over in 1988 for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after he criticized the Islamic regime. It followed growing pressure for Montazeri’s release, including from some 100 MPs of the reform camp, who wrote to Khatami on January 16 to express concern over “the seriousness of his health condition”. Dissident Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri at his home under house arrest last week. www.mmorning.com /article.asp?Article=4974&CategoryID=6   (540 words)

News in Norwegian-arkiv1 Montazeri ble møtt av jublende tilhengere utenfor huset sitt i byen Qom. En av Irans fremste religiøse opposisjonelle, ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri (80), ble torsdag løslatt etter fem års husarrest. Talsmann for provinsen, Hossein Rafati, sier at brannen skal etterforskes og at den trolig var forårsaket av en kortslutning i det elektriske anlegget. www.hambastegy.net /news_in_norwegian_arkiv.htm   (7424 words)

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