Montazeri Calls for Elections in Iran

The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | September 17, 2003 | The Associated Press

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Montazeri Calls for Elections in Iran

September 17, 2003 The Associated Press Ali Akbar Dareini

QOM -- In his first public speech in six years, Iran's leading dissident cleric criticized the country's hard-line Islamic leaders Wednesday, saying they should submit to elections and allow the country's young people to choose their future.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri addressed his followers after five years of house arrest and several months of illness.

About 300 students crowed into a small building in central Qom, a holy city 80 miles southwest of Tehran, to listen to the 81-year-old cleric, who was once the designated successor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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I just feel soooo sorry for these pooor Iranians for having put these Muslim wackos incharge. Let them suffer for another 50 years the tyranny of Islamic governmet. maybe then they will be cured of this sick religion.