Much has been written recently about the fundamentalist revolutionary low points and gradual democratic highlights of Iran's late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri (1922-2009). Little needs to be added for now about his religiopolitical career.
But attention should be drawn to his viewpoint on the religious minorities in Iran - Christians, Zoroastrians, Jews, and Bahais - which was not very different from those of other Shiite mullahs. Members of these faiths have been frequently persecuted in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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