He may have diverged from the regime over time, but it doesn't change the fact that Montazeri was a key player in creating this monstrous regime.
Montazeri to the left of the turd-in-chief Khomeini.
He may have diverged from the regime over time, but it doesn't change the fact that Montazeri was a key player in creating this monstrous regime.
Montazeri to the left of the turd-in-chief Khomeini.
In actuality, the regime diverged from him. The revolution was sold to the masses in 1977 & 1978 to usher in a secular government without nobility. Their boogie-man was an easily identifiable Shah and the disparity of the elites over the masses. Only because the Shah was ushering into existence a middle class did the secular concept work for the revolution.
Once the Shah was overthrown, the Khomeni radical forces began the process of first vilifying and the incriminating anyone who was of a secular mindset. This group of radicals on the street were led by none other than Achmedinajad himself who subsequently led the “inside job” orchestrated takover of the Embassy. It was at this point that anyone not alighed with the radicals was exponged from their society, either by fear, eviction or death.
Montazeri was just relegated to a position of self preservation until the latest upheaval and the sense of his own mortality gave him the stones to come out and speak against the current clan of heathens who hold the reigns of power.
Only now, to his credit and mostly to those who have braved the onslaught of the Basiji, the reigns are cracked and drying showing the obvious fraying and soon to be breaking. I was there for the years before the revolution and have studied it ever since. The revolution acutally started late in 1977 and only culminated in 1979. I have a feeling the current one actually going on right now will find its culmination in June or July. I can only pray that I am right.