PRI's The World » Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri http://www.theworld.org Global Perspectives for an American Audience Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:20:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Global Perspectives for an American Audience PRI's The World no Global Perspectives for an American Audience PRI's The World » Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri http://www.theworld.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.theworld.org Ayatollah vs. Ahmadinejad http://www.theworld.org/2009/10/ayatollah-vs-ahmadinejad/ http://www.theworld.org/2009/10/ayatollah-vs-ahmadinejad/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:20:11 +0000 Matthew Exell http://www.theworld.org/?p=17005 Download audio file (bbcbest102009.mp3)
montazeri150Could conservative Iranian clerics help bring about the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Iran? It sounds unlikely. But some of the country's top clerics believe President Ahmadinejad is bringing Islam into disrepute - and they want him out. In our latest 'Best of the BBC' selection we feature an e-mail interview with Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri (pictured), one of Iran's most respected clerics and an outspoken critic of Ahmadinejad. Download MP3
]]> President Ahmadinejad may have clung onto power after last summer’s elections, but opposition to his government continues. That opposition is receiving support from an unlikely quarter – Iran’s conservative clergy.

montazeri150This week’s edition of BBC Radio Four’s ‘Analysis’, produced for the domestic UK audience, investigates this phenomenon. The program contains an e-mail interview with Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri (pictured) – one of the Shi’ite world’s most senior and respected clerics and one of Iran’s most outspoken critics of President Ahmadinejad’s government.

In this interview, he calls on Iran’s clergy to work with political activists to bring about reform, urging them to be “in step with the people”. Grand Ayatollah Montazeri is at the forefront of a surprising alliance that is emerging in Iran – between hard-line secularists and orthodox Muslim clerics.

The BBC’s Edward Stourton asks whether this alliance could cause the collapse of the Islamic Republic as we know it and lead to a greater separation of Islam and the Iranian state.

Download MP3


]]> http://www.theworld.org/2009/10/ayatollah-vs-ahmadinejad/feed/ 2 Analysis,Best of BBC,Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri,Iran,Iran election,Iran protests,iranelection,Islam,Islamic Republic,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Mir Hossein Mousavi,radio four Could conservative Iranian clerics help bring about the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Iran? It sounds unlikely. But some of the country's top clerics believe President Ahmadinejad is bringing Islam into disrepute - and they want him out. Could conservative Iranian clerics help bring about the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Iran? It sounds unlikely. But some of the country's top clerics believe President Ahmadinejad is bringing Islam into disrepute - and they want him out. In our latest 'Best of the BBC' selection we feature an e-mail interview with Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri (pictured), one of Iran's most respected clerics and an outspoken critic of Ahmadinejad. Download MP3 BBC Radio Four's 'Analysis' programMore 'Best of the BBC' on The World PRI's The World no http://64.71.145.108/mp3/bbcbest/bbcbest102009.mp3 13115768 audio/mpeg