[Democratshavenobrains]

Not even most of the Democrat Party has said this.

[BlackVeil]

Ayatollah Montazeri spent years in house arrest in Qum. He was allowed to receive visitors (most of the time) but could not circulate in public and especially not visit the shrine in case he started preaching there.

[af_vet_1981]

I still think we should topple the regime for that act of war (seizing our embassy and diplomatic staff) alone.

[GaltMeister]

Iran's leading dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, has said the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran after the Islamic Revolution in 1980 was wrong.

Translation:

'We better give them their embassy back, and toe the line as citizens of the world, before we get a mudhole stomped in our collective asses'

[Radix]

It is widely believed that the occupation of the US diplomatic mission is the root cause of the continuing hostility between Tehran and Washington.

Gosh, do you think that is part of the reason?

[solzhenitsyn]

A salute for a great man.