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RadioFarda
March 13, 2018
In a joint session with Justice Department authorities, the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani, insisted he opposes “hastily tackling lawsuits” ... Another mid-ranking cleric, Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, agreed with Mohseni-Ejei, calling for swift punishment for the SufiÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 12, 2018
Iran's hardline prosecutor-general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has warned that the country's Judiciary will take “legal action” against the supporters of Ayatollah Sadeq Shirazi. In an interview with Iran's state TV (IRIB) on Saturday March 10, Montazeri accused Shriazi's supporters of “planning to flare upÃâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
March 10, 2018
... of Fatima,” said Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri in a written order to Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi on March 7, 2018, the ... But in the Shiite holy city of Qom, the ultra-conservative Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamadani called on the faithful to show their outrage against theÃâà...
Iran News Update
March 9, 2018
INU - Semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Iran's attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri is seeking to prosecute organizers of a party arranged by Tehran City Hall that ... On Thursday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at the West on Twitter for, in his view, leading its own women astray.
New Statesman
February 26, 2018
When Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile on 1 February 1979, he was greeted by an enormous crowd (estimates of its size have run up to three ..... Shortly before his death at the end of 2009, the dissident cleric Hossein-Ali Montazeri said that the Islamic Republic had become a military republic.
Middle East Eye
February 16, 2018
Immediately afterwards, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who at the time was the designated successor of Ayatollah Khomeini, wrote Khomeini a letter and asked him to declare jihad against the US. In response, Khomeini responded: "Your message was a relief to the pains of all who have been victimisedÃâà...
Arab News
February 12, 2018
Many high-level Iranian clerics question the underlying legitimacy of the Iranian regime's rule. One of the fundamental differences is linked to the concept of “Velayat-e Faqih” (the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), which was introduced into Shiite theology by Khomeini and Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri.
Egypt Independent
February 7, 2018
While Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed the protests on foreign agitators, Rouhani instead insisted that the government listen to what the demonstrators had to say. Tehran's chief prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has similarly blamed the anti-hijab protests on influence from enemyÃâà...
The New Arab
December 1, 2016
Ahmed Montazeri has been sentenced to 21 years for releasing recordings of his father, once tipped to succeed Ayatollah Khomenei, criticising political purges undertaken by Tehran in the 1980s.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 8, 2016
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to become Iran's supreme leader, has come back from the grave to haunt the Islamic establishment that punished him for openly criticizing the regime's mass killing of political opponents in the late 1980s. The release of an audio recording made in 1988Ãâà...
The Guardian (blog)
August 11, 2016
... the time: Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who was in line to lead the country after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then supreme leader and the leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Montazeri wrote a number of letters to Khomeini condemning the executions, and the grand ayatollah soon fell out of favour.
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
Last Thursday January 4, Iran's Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, revealed the details about a think tank responsible for the week-long protests in several cities across the country, saying “the mastermind of the project was an American named Michael D'Andrea, former Chief of the CIA'sÃâà...
Iran Press Watch
December 31, 1999
Mr. Mohammad Montazeri, the son of Ayatollah Montazeri – who was known as Mohammad Ringo – was in charge of this. He and few legal professionals were assigned to investigate complaints regarding torture. When I met this committee, I could not get over the long line of people from every walk of life,Ãâà...
Al-Arabiya
December 31, 1999
The spotlight on all these atrocities came about after an audiotape was leaked out by late Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri's son in August 2016. Montazeri, the handpicked successor of Khomeini, was sacked for his public objections to mass executions in 1988. He spent the rest of his life under houseÃâà...
