Hussein-Ali Montazeri Najafabadi was an Iranian cleric, politician, theologian, writer, and activist who served as the first and only deputy supreme leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989. A reformist, he was one of the major leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one of the highest-ranking authorities in Shia Islam.
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Hossein-Ali Montazeri in Evin prison after his arrest by SAVAK in 1975
Montazeri as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam leading prayers on 14 September 1979
Montazeri (right) with Mohammad Beheshti (center), and Hassan Ayat (left) during a Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution session in 1979
Ali Khamenei (left) with Montazeri (right)
Mohsen Kadivar meeting with Montazeri in 2005
Montazeri's followers mourning him near Fatima Masumeh Shrine
Hussein-Ali (left) with his son Mohamad (right) in 1980In their orbit 3
Academics born in the 1920s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 2009 · aged 87
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