Top Iran dissident cleric Montazeri dies at 87

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Source: Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a fierce critic of the hardline leadership who denounced June's disputed election as fraudulent, has died at the age of 87.

The moderate Parlemannews Web site said supporters of Montazeri, an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, were flocking to the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom to attend his funeral on Monday.

The reformist Tagheer website reported that pro-opposition Iranians were gathering in squares of Tehran on Sunday to mourn his death, and that riot police were seen in different parts of Qom, where Montazeri lived and died.

His death from a heart attack, reported by official media on Sunday, coincides with tension rising once again in the Islamic Republic, six months after the presidential poll plunged the major oil producer into political crisis.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091220/ts_nm/us_iran_cleric_death_12

[Hulk]

1. bummer....

...hope he still gets his 27 virgins for dying of old age?

[CBGLuthier]

3. saying he is a terrorist?

bigoted much?

[Itchinjim]

2. Why oh why didn't Obama do more to keep this man from dying?!!!!

It's his fault you know....

[Posteritatis]

4. K&R