It's been awhile since we've had an article here where we actually tried to see the world though the world's eyes, rather than debating the American or Western role in it, so here's this article about Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who was amongst the most influential members of Iran's original Islamic Revolution, credited by Khomeini himself as a model to emulate, but who has ultimately fallen-out with the authoritarian regime and it's subsequent leadership. Lately, he's been fighting time itself, issuing religious edict after edict from his home while old and sick, condemning the recent bloodshed in the aftermath of the recent Iranian Presidential election.
“Ayatollah Montazeri has emerged as the spiritual leader of the opposition, an adversary the state has been unable to silence or jail because of his religious credentials and seminal role in the founding of the republic.
He is widely regarded as the most knowledgeable religious scholar in Iran and once expected to become the country’s supreme leader until a falling-out with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 revolution and Iran’s supreme leader until his death in 1989. ”
I hope he burns in hell when his time comes, along with the rest of Iran's mullahs.