Pro-reformists hold up portraits of Montazeri during his funeral procession. He was carried from his home in Qom to the shrine of of Fatemeh Masoumeh, where he was laid to rest. (AFP / Getty Images)
Montazeri’s coffin passes through a massive crowd en route to the shrine of Fatemeh Masoumeh in Qom. At the end of the funeral, Montazeri’s son, Ahmad, asked mourners to disperse peacefully out of respect for the family. (AFP / Getty Images)
Montazeri is seen at his house in Qom in 2005. Once slated to be the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Montazeri fell out of the Islamic Republic’s inner circle after he criticized the mass killing of prisoners in the late 1980s. (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)
