Revolutionary thoughts

Last Modified: 13 Mar 2006
By: Jonathan Miller

The Ayatollah passed over for the top clerical role warns that todays religious leaders are badly wrong on human rights.

The Ayatollah passed over for Iran's top clerical role warns that todays religious leaders are badly wrong about human rights.

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During our coverage from Iran last week we talked of the so-called 'red line' areas - dissident people and thoughts, deemed so beyond the pale, they can't be reported at all within Iran.

Here's one such interview, a very red line indeed: We've spoken to a Grand Ayatollah who's turned into one of the biggest critics of the regime he helped to set up.

Hussein Ali Montazeri is living under surveillance after years of house arrest in Qom. But he still dares to speak out against repression and the abuse of human rights. Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller reports.