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Hussein-Ali Montazeri

1922 - 2009

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Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri (Persian: حسینعلی منتظری‎ [hosejnæˈliːje montæzeˈɾiː] ; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was an Iranian theologian, democracy advocate, writer, and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one of the highest-ranking authorities in Shīʿite Islam. He was once the designated successor to the revolution's leader, Ruhollah Khomeini; they had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people's freedom and denied them their rights, especially after the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners. Montazeri spent his later years in Qom and remained politically influential in Iran but was placed in house arrest in 1997 for questioning "the unaccountable rule exercised by the supreme leader", Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Ruhollah Khomeini. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hussein-Ali Montazeri is the 6,157th most popular politician (down from 4,200th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 148th in 2019) and the 101st most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 6,157 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis-François de Boufflers, Seleucus VII Philometor, Henry Tingle Wilde, Leopold II, Margrave of Austria, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. After him are Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Federica Montseny, Vonones II, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Wonjong of Goryeo.

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Among people born in 1922, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 97. Before him are Veronica Lake, Árpád Göncz, Damiano Damiani, Alistair MacLean, Carlos Andrés Pérez, and Paul Marcinkus. After him are George Blake, Kim Hunter, Rajko Mitić, Elmer Bernstein, Ralph H. Baer, and Yvonne De Carlo. Among people deceased in 2009, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 67. Before him are Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Susan Atkins, Israel Gelfand, Mario Benedetti, Ingemar Johansson, and Jack Kemp. After him are Samak Sundaravej, Ricardo Montalbán, Luís Cabral, G. A. Cohen, Feroz Khan, and Achille Compagnoni.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 183 out of 631. Before him are Harpagus (-700), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Shaykh Tusi (995), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), and Mehdi Bazargan (1907). After him are Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Al-Karaji (953), Ahmad ibn Rustah (null), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), Barbara (null), and Al-Baydawi (1201).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Hussein-Ali Montazeri ranks 101. Before him are Sultan Husayn (1668), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), Apama (-400), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), and Mehdi Bazargan (1907). After him are Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Arsames (-550), Abdullah Mirza (1433), Sati Beg (1300), Simko Shikak (1887), and Quli Qutb Shah (1470).

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