The death of Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri on Sunday quickly set off protests in Tehran, with students and others championing Montazeri's ideals of liberal reform as well as his ...

QOM, Iran -- Iran's senior dissident cleric ventured outside his home Thursday for the first time in five years, receiving a hero's welcome from a crowd of tearful supporters gathered to celebrate his ...

ISTANBUL, Jan. 27 -- Iranian authorities will lift a long-standing house arrest order imposed on an elderly Muslim cleric who has been the most prominent critic of the country's conservative Islamic ...

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, whose death was confirmed by state media on Sunday, was a pillar of the country's theocratic system since the Islamic revolution and saw off multiple crises over ...

QOM, Iran -- Iran's senior dissident cleric has been freed after spending five years under house arrest for criticizing the nation's supreme leader, a security official said Thursday. The hard-line ...

Seeking to put some flesh on that definition, my language tutor told me to envision Grand Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri. “He’s more than a little mofangi,” remarked the tutor, expressing the ...