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May 23, 2024 · Until 1989, Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri – a prominent theologian and revolutionary leader – was expected to take over as the supreme leader.
- Eric Lob
May 30, 2024 · Until 1989, Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri – a prominent theologian and revolutionary leader – was expected to take over as the supreme leader. That year, however, he was ultimately passed over by Khomeini and later placed under house arrest by Khamenei.
May 23, 2024 · Until 1989, Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri – a prominent theologian and revolutionary leader – was expected to take over as the supreme leader. That year, however, he was ultimately passed over by Khomeini and later placed under house arrest by Khamenei.
- Eric Lob
May 28, 2024 · The once-fringe figure was not the first choice of revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini, who in 1985 named Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri as his deputy supreme leader and successor.
May 28, 2024 · Khamenei’s own ascent to Iran’s supreme leadership may prove instructive. The once-fringe figure was not the first choice of revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini, who in 1985 named Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri as his deputy supreme leader and successor.
May 29, 2024 · After an ideological falling-out with his preferred successor Hussein-Ali Montazeri, who was the second-most-esteemed cleric after himself, Khomeini eventually appointed Khamenei as his successor instead and got the constitution amended to remove a previous requirement that the most esteemed cleric must be Supreme Leader, instead requiring just ...
May 21, 2024 · In fact, it was a liberal cleric and human rights activist named Hussein Ali Montazeri who was designated as the successor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the conservative Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became Supreme Leader only after a power struggle.
