Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran
by
Ulrich von Schwerin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
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...