20 December 2009

Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri who was a prominent Islamic scholar and known as “spiritual leader of the Green Movement” by some activists died on December 20, 2009 at 1 a.m. . For a long time, he was the Islamic government’s and its supreme leader’s critic. In an interview with AP, Naser Montazeri, one of his grand children, it was stated that he died while sleeping due to natural causes.