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	<title>Iran News Digest &#187; Montazeri</title>
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		<title>Dissident cleric&#8217;s wife laid to rest in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/28/dissident-clerics-wife-laid-to-rest-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/28/dissident-clerics-wife-laid-to-rest-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MahSoltan Rabani, wife of the late dissident Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Montazeri was laid to rest today under strict security measures in Qom.
Their son Saeed Montazeri told Jaras website: “Security forces and forces in plain clothes created such a security atmosphere that we were basically unable to carry out the special prayers and mourning ceremony.”
He added: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligence officials trying to prevent funeral of senior cleric&#8217;s wife</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/28/intelligence-officials-trying-to-prevent-funeral-of-senior-clerics-wife/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/28/intelligence-officials-trying-to-prevent-funeral-of-senior-clerics-wife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GVF &#8212; Despite Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s sons’ announcement that they plan to hold their mother’s funeral procession on Sunday from their house to Qom’s holy shrine, security officials have opposed such a move.
Following the passing away of Gran Ayatollah Montazeri’s wife Ms Rabbani, the late Ayatollah’s website announced that a funeral procession would be held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wife of late dissident cleric, Ayatollah Montazeri, passes away</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/27/wife-of-late-dissident-cleric-ayatollah-montazeri-passes-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/27/wife-of-late-dissident-cleric-ayatollah-montazeri-passes-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wife of Ayatollah Hoseinali Montazeri, Hajeih Khanom Rabani passed away today in Qom less than four months after the dissident cleric was laid to rest.
Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani, another progressive Shiite cleric described Mrs. Rabani as a “friend and companion” of the late Muslim leader who “stood by him like a firm and resistant dam.”
Ayatollah Montazeri, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Ayatollah</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/23/the-good-ayatollah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/23/the-good-ayatollah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If 2010 turns out to be the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it may well be because of the death of one of the regime&#8217;s founders, a man I met three decades ago in Tehran&#8217;s infamous Evin prison.
In 1977, I was a 27-year-old rebel arrested for being &#8220;detrimental to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It Can&#8217;t Go On Like This&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/05/it-cant-go-on-like-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/05/it-cant-go-on-like-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=14997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saeed Montazeri, son of the leading Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, talks to SPIEGEL about who is responsible for his father&#8217;s recent death, reformists&#8217; chances of success and why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not suited to be president.
Montazeri: The security forces only showed restraint for the first 24 hours after his death. Immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Martyr For the Next Iranian Revolution?</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/29/a-martyr-for-the-next-iranian-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/29/a-martyr-for-the-next-iranian-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=14470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Montazeri&#8217;s most lasting achievement may prove to be the deepening marriage between religious -democrats and increasingly nonreligious, Western-style democrats. He didn&#8217;t intend this when he first started challenging the regime&#8217;s legitimacy. But Montazeri evolved, as has the entire Iranian democracy movement&#8211;now easily the dominant intellectual force in the country. Indeed, this rapid evolution is perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Female University Mourns Montazeri</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/26/all-female-university-mourns-montazeri/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/26/all-female-university-mourns-montazeri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Alzahra University, an all female university, mourns Montazeri with anti-regime slogans.
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		<title>Kadivar: &#8216;I Am Convinced that the Regime Will Collapse&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/26/kadivar-i-am-convinced-that-the-regime-will-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/26/kadivar-i-am-convinced-that-the-regime-will-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam and Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar, currently a visiting research professor at America&#8217;s Duke University, discusses the recent death of opposition leader Hossein Ali Montazeri, the frustrations Iranians have with their regime and the future of the green movement and the prospect of an escalation.
 
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Kadivar: You are right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Montazeri meant to Iranians</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/25/what-montazeri-meant-to-iranians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/25/what-montazeri-meant-to-iranians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=14089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What concerned the authorities was that his criticisms could influence hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom may be inside the political machinery of the Islamic Republic, such as the Revolutionary Guards or the Bassij militia.
However, Montazeri died as an enemy of the regime he had helped to create. He also died as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basiji Attacks Protesting Mourners in Esfahan</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/24/basiji-attacks-protesting-mourners-in-esfahan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/24/basiji-attacks-protesting-mourners-in-esfahan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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Mourners chanting anti-regime slogans get attacked by basiji.
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		<title>Iran police clash with Montazeri mourners</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/iran-police-clash-with-montazeri-mourners-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/iran-police-clash-with-montazeri-mourners-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=13984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AFP: Iranian police waded into a crowd of mourners at a memorial service for dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in Isfahan Wednesday, beating women and children and firing tear gas, an opposition website reported.  The mourners were shouting slogans in support of Iran&#8217;s opposition Green Movement and several were arrested, Rahesabz.net reported.  &#8220;This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Ahmadinejad bullies the West, unrest grows in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/as-ahmadinejad-bullies-the-west-unrest-grows-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/as-ahmadinejad-bullies-the-west-unrest-grows-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The huge, nonviolent crowds, and their chants (&#8221;Dictator, this is your last message: The people of Iran are rising!&#8221;), proved that there is still plenty of life in the popular movement that Mr. Khamenei and his Revolutionary Guards provoked by engineering Mr. Ahmadinejad&#8217;s fraudulent reelection in June. Given the horrific extent of the repression against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Million-Man Show of Force</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/million-man-show-of-force/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/million-man-show-of-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Rooz Online reporter on site reports that the number of mourners in the beginning of the ceremony was so large that all the streets leading to ayatollah Montazeri’s house were blocked off.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karoubi, Qom’s Friday prayer leader ayatollah Amini, Isfahan’s former Friday prayer leader ayatollah Taheri, the former head of Iran’s judiciary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran After Montazeri</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/iran-after-montazeri/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/23/iran-after-montazeri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=13972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ironically, even though Montazeri will be held in high regard by religious and conservative segments of Iranian society, many in the Iranian opposition do not hold any cleric in high esteem. Mullahs may be hailed when they come out against the government crackdown, but they can hardly be seen as leaders capable of uniting Iranian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleric’s Funeral Becomes Protest of Iran Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/cleric%e2%80%99s-funeral-becomes-protest-of-iran-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/cleric%e2%80%99s-funeral-becomes-protest-of-iran-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The funeral of a prominent dissident cleric in the holy Iranian city of Qum turned into a huge and furious antigovernment rally on Monday, raising the possibility that the cleric’s death could serve as a catalyst for an opposition movement that has been locked in a stalemate with the authorities.
As mourners carried the body of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pics of Montazeri&#8217;s Funeral 12-22</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/pics-of-montazeris-funeral-12-22/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/pics-of-montazeris-funeral-12-22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WSJ has some nice pics here.
Spiegel has some large, high quality pics here.
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Regime &#8216;Has Every Reason to Be Worried&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/irans-regime-has-every-reason-to-be-worried/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/irans-regime-has-every-reason-to-be-worried/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign media were blocked from the site, but footage posted online shows massive crowds. There are also reports of clashes between protestors and security forces as well as hundreds of arrests, but the situation doesn&#8217;t appear to be as tense as it was in June. Still, the Associated Press is reported that some private news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Death, Ayatollah Stirs Regime Foes</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/in-death-ayatollah-stirs-regime-foes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/?p=13933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Karim Sadjapour, an Iran analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, thinks his greatest influence in death may be on fellow clerics. &#8220;Given the overwhelming popular reaction to Montazeri&#8217;s death, I&#8217;m sure it has gotten some clerics rethinking their support for their government, or their acquiescence to governmental repression,&#8221; he said.
&#8230;the developments pose a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The making of a martyr: Death of defiant cleric revives Iran&#8217;s reformists</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/the-making-of-a-martyr-death-of-defiant-cleric-revives-irans-reformists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Montazeri&#8217;s death is a catalyst for a broader showdown between the regime and the opposition, and the regime is clearly pulling out all the stops,&#8221; said Robin Wright, a historian, Iran observer and senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
&#8220;This is an important moment. History is made by a confluence of factors, and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayatollah Montazeri</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During this period, Ayatollah Montazeri’s thought underwent a reorientation. Human rights and democracy moved to the center of his religious teaching. On many of Iran’s most politically charged debates, he intervened in an unprecedented manner that marked a clear contrast with the ideology of Iranian regime. On the question of Iran’s persecuted Bahai minority, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historians and the History-Maker Ayatollah Montazeri</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/historians-and-the-history-maker-ayatollah-montazeri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayatollah Khomeini’s charismatic personality was not something that would bind him to remain silent.  The “post of supreme leadership” was not something that would trick him.  Attacks and insults by thugs was not something that would frighten him.  House arrest for years was not something that would force him into retreat.  Comfort was not something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran opposition energized by Montazeri funeral in Qom, say eyewitnesses</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/iran-opposition-energized-by-montazeri-funeral-in-qom-say-eyewitnesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chant leaders led a crowd of hundreds of thousands that spilled beyond one of the most sacred shrines in Iran.
“Rape, atrocities, an unworthy government,” mourners chanted in Qom Monday. “This is the month of blood, Yazid will fall,” sounded another, referring to the 7th-century caliph who killed Hossein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad. Today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian dissident cleric&#8217;s funeral draws huge crowds</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/iranian-dissident-clerics-funeral-draws-huge-crowds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The demonstration in the city of Qom was significant both for its important location and its merging of several currents in Iran&#8217;s population: It drew older supporters of Montazeri from smaller cities and towns in the countryside as well as young middle-class urbanites from the capital.
The boos of chanting mourners overwhelmed official slogans emanating from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Cleric&#8217;s Funeral Becomes Opposition Protest</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/iran-clerics-funeral-becomes-opposition-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further evidence that opposition to the Iranian government remains strong: Tens of thousands turned out for the funeral of a leading dissident cleric — Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri — in the holy Shiite city of Qum.
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		<title>Ayatollah Montazeri&#8217;s Funeral in Qom</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/22/ayatollah-montazeris-funeral-in-qom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Chants of &#8220;Ya Hossein-Mir Hossein&#8221;, &#8220;Allah Akbar&#8221;, &#8220;Montazeri the innocent we are happy for your freedom&#8221; ,&#8221;Leader of freedom we are happy for your freedom&#8221;, &#8220;Montazeri the innocent your path shall continue&#8221;
Mehdi Karoubi Visits Ayatollah Montazeri&#8217;s Home

Montazeri&#8217;s Body at his Home

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