He was once the designated successor to the revolution’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, with whom he had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people’s freedom and denied them their rights.
He was once the designated successor to the revolution’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, with whom he had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people’s freedom and denied them their rights.