{"id":7568,"date":"2009-12-20T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7568"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:06:39","slug":"irans-dissident-grand-ayatollah-montazeri-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/irans-dissident-grand-ayatollah-montazeri-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Iran&#8217;s most prominent dissident clerics, Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87.<\/p>\n<p>Hoseyn Ali Montazeri was a moving spirit in the 1979 revolution which created Iran&#8217;s Islamic state, and was at one stage set to become its leader.<\/p>\n<p>One of Shia Islam&#8217;s most respected figures, he was also a leading critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/46960000\/jpg\/_46960148_newmonty_afp_226.jpg\" title=\"Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dies\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"226\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nThe BBC&#8217;s Jon Leyne says the death comes at a crucial time in a standoff between the government and opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s rulers will now fear the opposition may attempt a big turnout for his funeral on Monday and other ceremonies marking his death, especially in the run-up to the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura on 27 December, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/8423046.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Iran&#8217;s most prominent dissident clerics, Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87. Hoseyn Ali Montazeri was a moving spirit in the 1979 revolution which created Iran&#8217;s Islamic state, and was at one stage set to become its leader. One of Shia Islam&#8217;s most respected figures, he was also a leading critic&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1061,17,19,20],"tags":[1122,1123],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-iran","category-iran","category-iran-history","category-iran-news","tag-ayatollah-montazeri","tag-hoseyn-ali-montazeri","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7569,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions\/7569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}