Posted on 11/20/2003 5:54:12 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
September 21, 2003 BC News Sadeq Saba
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.
This is the first time that a prominent leader of the Iranian revolution has made such an admission.
Ayatollah Montazeri, who was once designated as Ayatollah Khomeini's successor, called for an immediate resumption of relations with Washington.
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