TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a fierce critic of the hardline leadership who denounced June's disputed presidential election as fraudulent, has died at the age of 87.
A moderates' website said supporters of Montazeri, an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution, were flocking to the holy city of Qom to attend his funeral on Monday. A reformist website also reported that opposition supporters were gathering in squares of Tehran on Sunday to mourn his death.
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