Hosein-Ali Montazeri the student of Ayatollah Khomeini was an important revolutionary active against kingdom dynasty. He was jailed and tortured in Pahlavi prisons and after revolution he supported revolutionaries and it was expected for him to be the next supreme leader of Iran after Khomeini's death.
in 1987 his first oppose against leadership occured when the revolutionaries were executing big numbers of protesters. He was directly demoted by Khomeini the revolution leader. In a short time his name and books were censured from all the media. His classes were closed and regime tried strictly to not let his followers contact him. After Khomeini's death Ali Khamenei got Iran's leader while many of Shia scholars believed he is not qualified because he was not an Ayatollah and didn't wrote any book but unbelievably he got an Ayatollah title after being the leader. Ayatollah Montazeri after 90s announced Khomeini's theory is not democratic and the grand supreme leader is not innocent and might get corrupted so people must be able to choose him. In a speech in 1997 he opposed the leaders for dis-behaving with Bahai people of Iran and then announced Khamenei is totally stepping out of Islam which made the regime jail him inside of his house until his death. He has been supporting the green movement of the people of Iran after the rigged election of June 2009. He passed away in December 2009 on age 87. Today a big population of people including many of nonreligious and non Muslims were participating in his funeral while the regime was not able to prevent it.
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the funeral should not have been corrupted by the non-religious.
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