Mohammad Montazeri
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| Born | 1944 Najafabad, Iran |
| Died | 28 June 1981 (aged 37) Tehran, Iran |
| Cause of death | Bombing |
| Resting place | Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Occupation | Cleric |
| Years active | 1960s–1981 |
| Parent(s) |
Hossein Ali Montazeri (father) Mah Sultan Rabbani (mother) |
Abbas Mohammad Montazeri (1944 – 28 June 1981) was an Iranian cleric and military figure. He was one of the founding members and early chiefs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. He was killed in a 1981 bombing in Tehran.
Born in Najafabad in 1944, Montazeri was the oldest son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. He had two brothers and two sisters.
Montazeri was a low-ranking and radical cleric. He began opposition activities to the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, after the June 1963 events that led to the exile of Khomeini. His father and he were both arrested by the Shah's security forces in March 1966. In prison Mohammad was tortured and released in 1968. He left Iran for Pakistan. Then he settled in Najaf, Iraq, in 1971 and stayed there until 1975. Next he lived in Afghanistan and in other cities of Iraq.
He headed an armed group that was based in Syria and Lebanon and fought against Israeli forces. The group was founded by Montazeri and Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur with the aim of assisting liberation movements in Muslim countries.
Montazeri was trained in Fatah camps in Lebanon. In addition, he fought with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and other Palestinian and Shiite armed groups in the country. Montazeri was one of the three Iranian key officials along with Mostafa Chamran and Mohtashamipur who strengthened Iran's commitment to Lebanon. He was called Abu Ahmad by Lebanese people. Montazeri also travelled to Europe during this period.
In 1978 he occupied the Mehrabad airport of Tehran with his 200 armed followers and demanded to go to Libya to search for Musa Al Sadr, a Lebanese Shia cleric who disappeared in Libya in August 1978. He visited Ayatollah Khomeini when the latter was in exile in Paris. Before the 1979 Iranian revolution he was one of the people who promoted the idea of founding the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
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