Iran: Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dead, critic of the regime

Yesterday - 15.02 Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a leading religious figure that was supposed to be the successor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and which has long been critical of the regime in Tehran, dead. Announced today the state media. Continue reading this news at the news of the death of Montazeri, thousands of his supporters have decided to leave Qom - where he lived - to attend the funeral scheduled for tomorrow, reported moderate Parlemannews site. In Qom, says Tagheer another website Web reformist, meanwhile, reported a massive presence of riot control agents. In Tehran, however, always indicates Tagheer, opposition supporters began to gather in a few squares to commemorate Montazeri, joins in the motion that refers to religious reformist Mehdi Karoubi. 87enne The Montazeri, who had contested the outcome of presidential elections in June that have restored his victory, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was one of the architects of the Islamic revolution of 1979, but then had collided with the religious leadership, to spend five years under house arrest until 2002. It must be he the successor of Ayatollah Khomeini at the head of Iran. But after the contest in 1989 mass execution of prisoners, to succeed Khomeini was in the same year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, still the country's highest spiritual leader. "Hossein Ali Montazeri died at his home last night ", reported the official news agency in a dispatch that does not indicate the official title of Montazeri. Ayatollah lived for years in Qom, the holy city for Shiites, which is located south of Tehran, and was one of most senior and important religious Iranians. In August, he described the current system a "dictatorship," saying that the management by the authorities of the riots in the streets after the June elections could bring "the fall of the regime." - On other news site www.reuters.it Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia