 Iran’s most prominent dissident cleric has complained freedom is being “sacrificed” in the Islamic republic, pointing to the mass disqualification of candidates for March parliamentary elections.
| Picked right up on that, didn't he? |
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once seen as the successor as supreme leader to revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, also denounced “wrongdoings” which he said were giving Islam a “violent image”.
| Dunno what he could be referring to there. Islam is such a peaceful religion. Its practitioners seem so... ummm... blissful. |
”People who have paid dearly for the slogans of independence and freedom are being snubbed,” the reformist Etemad newspaper quoted Montazeri as saying. “We have succeeded in achieving independence. But freedom, which is advocated by Islam and the constitution, has been sacrificed.” he said. |