The Dissident Mullah

The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time of his death, Montazeri was considered one of the Islamic Republic''s fiercest critics. What made this man, who was once considered the leading advocate of the state doctrine of the ''Guardianship of the Jurist'' (velaya...