So usually the clerics will put out statements stating when it is the end of Ramadan. In what seems to be an act of clerical protest against Khamenei, they are not acknowledging that Ramadan ends when he says so. Might not seem like a big deal, but pretty important since the Supreme Leaders is supposed to be infallible and well supreme:
The Green Movement is highlighting the possibility that marjas, the highest-ranking senior clerics, will not declare that Ramadan has ended Sunday and can be celebrated with the feast of Eid al-Fitr. In particular, it is noted that the websites of Ayatollah Montazeri and of Ayatollah Sane’i have not yet declared that the Holy Month is over.
Ayatollahs Mousavi-Ardebili, Safi-Golpaygani, and Bayat-Zanjani are also declaring that they have not seen the crescent of the moon. And now Hojatoleslam Taghdiri, the head of the crescent observation committee of Tehran Province, has said that there is no way that the crescent can be observed tomorrow.
The statements are significant because they defy the declaration of the Supreme Leader that Sunday is the end of Ramadan holiday.
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