Death of a patriot
Another of the founders of the Islamic Republic of Iran has died.Ayatollah Montazeri, Iranian Cleric, Dies at 87
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the plain-spoken senior Shiite cleric who helped forge Iran’s system of religious government and went on to become a fierce critic of its hard-line rulers, died Sunday morning at the age of 87. He died of heart failure in his sleep, his son Ahmad told Iran’s official IRNA news agency...
Ayatollah Montazeri was born in 1922 in the city of Najafabad, in Isfahan province, to a peasant family. He studied under Ayatollah Khomeini in Qom, and became involved in networks opposed to the Shah, earning a four-year prison sentence in 1974. After the revolution in 1979, he played a central role in creating Iran’s new constitution, in part because of his authorship on the doctrine of velayat-e-faqih, or rule by clerics. But he argued that the clerics should play an advisory role in a democratic system, and should not rule directly...
Teaching Comparative blog entries are indexed.
Find out What You Need to Know
Labels: history, ideology, Iran, leadership
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:04 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home