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    Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri (Persian: حسینعلی منتظری‎ [hosei̯næˈliː-e montæzeˈɾiː] pronunciation; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was...
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    death, Khomeini had a disagreement with the heir he had chosen – Hussein Ali Montazeri – so there was no agreed-on successor when Khomeini died. The Assembly...
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    issues in some provinces like Lorestan, Semnan and Kermanshah. Hussein-Ali Montazeri named Raisi as one of the four persons involved in the 1988 executions...
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  • Defenders of Human Rights Center and dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri condemned demolition allegedly occurring at Khavaran cemetery by...
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    seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Ali Meshkini, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Mohammad Ali Araki, Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani and Mirza...
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    1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election (category Ali Khamenei)
    successor. He was considered a distinguished Marja', and after Hussein-Ali Montazeri was dismissed as the heir, he quickly emerged as the "leading candidate"...
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    resignation of Hussein-Ali Montazeri as the heir-designate to Ayatollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader of Iran. Prior to the killings, Montazeri "had taken issue...
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  • was shut down in 2000 after it had published an interview with Hussein-Ali Montazeri, and in January 2001 Eslami was convicted of publishing lies and...
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    is now housed within a larger mausoleum complex. Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, a former student of Khomeini and a major figure of the Revolution...
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  • Imam. Certain clerics, such as Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari and Hussein-Ali Montazeri, who had fallen out of favor with the rulers were downgraded by...
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    reestablish the post of Vice Supreme Leader, which was last held by Hussein-Ali Montazeri from 1985 to 1989. In 2023, Israeli military intelligence had assessed...
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  • Ayatollah Montazeri is another term for Hussein-Ali Montazeri, an Iranian cleric. Ayatollah Montazeri may also refer to: Ayatollah Montazeri-ye Bala, village...
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    Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, ABC-CLIO, p. 89, ISBN 9781576075166 Hussein Abdul-Raof (2012), Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis: A Practical...
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    Supreme Leader of Iran (category Ali Khamenei)
    become Supreme Leader. Khomeini had a falling out with his successor Hussein-Ali Montazeri who disapproved of human rights abuses by the Islamic Republic such...
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  • of female political prisoners was so prevalent that it prompted Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini's then-deputy, to write the following...
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    could take part in his courses on Principles of Jurisprudence. Ayatollah Montazeri was his classmate in this period. Later, Motahhari emigrated to Isfahan...
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    is Supreme Leader of Iran Sayyid Ali Khamenei, who also appoints temporary Imams. Ahmad Khatami, Kazem Seddiqi, Ali Movahedi-Kermani, Mohammad-Hassan...
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    Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi, Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, and Hussein-Ali Montazeri. When he was studying at Qom Seminary, he became interested in politics...
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    Revolution was proposed by Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Montazeri, son of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri; Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini ordered in February...
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    Vilayat-e Faqih, Ahmad Azari Qomi Vilayat-e Faqih, Hussein-Ali Montazeri Vilayat-e Faqih, Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi Vilayat-e Faqih, Javadi Amoli Vilayat-e...
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    until 1978, when he was encouraged to leave by then-Vice President Saddam Hussein. Khomeini decided to return to Iran after Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah...
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    December 2009 on charges related to an interview with Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri. Baghi was released and then again rearrested on 5 December 2010...
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    secure their affluent lifestyle," according to the Shia jurist Hussein-Ali Montazeri (d. 2009). One example is the response of al-Hadi to a letter from...
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    Ardebili Ahmad Khonsari Ali Meshkini Ali Safi Golpaygani Ayatollah Haj Mirza Khalil Kamareyi Hossein Vahid Khorasani Hussein-Ali Montazeri Jawad Tabrizi Mehdi...
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    as "a prominent Qom cleric close to reformist clerics Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri and Ayatollah Yousef Sane'i." He was arrested on January 13, 2010...
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  • Duke University (2009–). Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Grand Ayatollah and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran (1985-1989). Hussein Esmaeel al-Sadr, Grand Ayatollah...
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    of female political prisoners was so prevalent that it prompted Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini’s then-deputy, to write the following...
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    the 1970s. In 1978 the Shah made a request to then-Vice President Saddam Hussein to banish the expatriate Ayatollah Khomenei from Iraq, who had been living...
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  • Hossein Mazaheri (born 1933) Hossein Wahid Khorasani (born 1921) Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922–2009) Iftikhār al-Tujjar (1912-1977) Ja'far Sobhani (born...
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    just a few years after the Iranian revolution. In the year 1985, Hussein-Ali Montazeri was selected as the deputy Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts...
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