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)
