Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Grand Ayatollah Montazeri attacks Ahmadinejad - 'We have lost international trust'

Montazeri, who is married to the sister of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini - the leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, presided over the commission which drafted the Iranian constitution.

Although he was considered the natural heir to Ayatollah Khomeini, Montazeri was "disinherited" by his brother-in-law and was instead placed under house arrest, up until four years ago, for having criticised the repressive actions in the middle of the 1980s.

Montazeri stressed that "all governments and people have to have access to technology and nuclear energy." More...

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