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Mohammad Montazeri was a cleric and military figure. He was one of the founding members and early chiefs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was assassinated in a bombing in Tehran on 28 June 1981.Born in Najafabad in 1944, Montazeri was the oldest son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.He had two brothers and two sisters.
In 1963 Montazeri attended religious seminars in Qom together with his long-term confidant Mehdi Hashemi and Mehdi’s brother Hadi Hashemi who would be the future husband of Montazeri’s sister.
