Latest Iran Video: Montazeri's Criticism of Supreme Leader Khamenei (1997; Redistributed October 2009)

In 1997, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri declared that the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not worthy to be a majra (a senior cleric worthy of emulation). The declaration resulted in his house arrest. Earlier this year, the video re-surfaced again amidst post-election protest:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oer5bLZDSG8[/youtube]

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Comments

[mukharbish]

i think this speech is actually the one he made in 1997 (for which his house was attacked by thugs and he was placed under house arrest for several years).

[naj]

Mukharbish, you are correct.

[Scott Lucas]

Naj and Mukharbish,

My thanks to both of you for correcting my mistake.

S.

[Robert Mackey]

Is this the same speech Muhammad Sahimi wrote about in http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/12/grand-ayatollah-hossein-ali-montazeri-1922-2009.html" rel="nofollow">this obit for Tehran Bureau (in which Montazeri advised Khatami to tell Khamenei, "You and your office are respected, but I was elected with 20 million votes and, therefore, I should be allowed to run the country.")?