Iran’s Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri dies

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Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of Iran’s most senior dissident clerics, a staunch defender of the nation’s opposition movement as well as a learned theologian and pillar of the Islamic Revolution 31 years ago, has died. He was 87.

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-- Keith Thursby