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Khomeini began “to transfer some of his power” to Montazeri, in 1980. By 1983 “all government offices hung a small picture” of Montazeri next to that of Khomeini. In 1984, Montazeri became a grand ayatollah.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of Reza Shah Pahlavi, was born into a period …