Sunday, September 20, 2009

Ayatollahs Against and For the Regime

Given that the Grand Ayatollahs are disagreeing with Khamenei about the end of Ramadan, I thought I would highlight how many Grand Ayatollahs and Ayatollahs are against this regime. These assessments are from Tehran Bureau's Ayatollah Watch:

23 Grand Ayatollahs and Ayatollahs who have put out statements directly or implicitly against the regime:

- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri 
- Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei
- Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussein Sistani
- Grand Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili
- Grand Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani
- Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani
- Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi
- Grand Ayatollah Nouri Hamedan
- Grand Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani
- Ayatollah Sayyed Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi
- Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli
- Ayatollah Ali Mohammad Dastghaib
- Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Ayatollah Mohammad Imami-Kashani
- Ayatollah Mohaghegh-Damad
- Ayatollah Hossein Zarandi
- Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani
- Ayatollah Kharazi
- Ayatollah Reza Ostadi
- Ayatollah Hashemzadeh Harisi
- Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri
- Ayatollah Hadi Ghaffari
- Ayatollah Haj Shaykh Ebrahimi Amini

10 have said things in support of the regime:

- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseini Khamenei
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi
- Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati
- Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Akbar Qoreyshi
- Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami
- Ayatollah Abolghasem Khazali
- Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
- Ayatollah Morteza Moqtadaei
- Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani

It is clear that the religious establishment is abandoning this regime. 

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