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Hossein Ali Montazeri: the good ayatollah

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’s founders, a man I met three decades ago in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison. Read the article.

By , the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University.
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REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazi
REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazi

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’s founders, a man I met three decades ago in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison.

Read the article.

Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam director of Iranian Studies and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. Twitter: @milaniabbas

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