Iran’s Most Senior Living Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Supreme Leader

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‘I Had Come to Show That You Can Live Spiritually Within Today’s World.’

-Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh

In a very important development, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the most senior cleric living in Iran, and one of the top two* marja’ taghlid (source of emulation) in Shiite Islam, issued a series of Fatwas, calling the Supreme Leader illegitimate and saying that he was working with the government against religion. Montazeri has called on people to take action against this injustice, even if they have to pay a heavy price for it.

Ayatollah Montazeri issues a fatwa against the Supreme Leader [Twitter]