Mohammad Montazeri
Iran
Muslim People's Republic
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
government
Mohammad Montazeri was an Iranian cleric and military figure who is the eldest son of former Iranian deputy supreme leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri. He was one of the founding members and early chiefs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Montazeri was assassinated in a bombing in Tehran on 28 June 1981.
Standing...
Stories...
Sep 22, 2026
Lean Left
The head of the Supreme Court called the Minab school incident a war crime and said the judiciary has a duty to pursue it.
Moderates are skeptical of his sudden legal activism, noting that similar calls for accountability often stall when the accused are powerful, and see this as a selective use of judicial language to score political points.