Mahmoud Taleghani

Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani (Persian محمود طالقانی, * 1911/1914 in Galird at Taleghan; † 9 September 1979), a Shiite cleric Alem and reform in Iran and supporters of the so-called was " Islamic socialism ".

Life and work

In the course of the riots in Iran in June 1963 Taleghani was first arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. Later he was again arrested for allegedly disturbing the peace and sentenced to six years in prison. As part of a policy of national reconciliation by Prime Minister Jafar Sharif - Emami, he was released in October 1978. Taleghani was until the return of Ruhollah Khomeini as a leader of the Islamic revolution. He was called the Father of the revolutionaries and the father of Volksmodschahedin.

Taleghani was famous for his programmatic rather a progressive, leftist attitude. As chairman of the Assembly of Experts, he spoke in favor of a direct popular sovereignty. But his unexpected death - he led in the evening a conversation with the Soviet ambassador - prevented that he could enforce his views on the new form of government.

Hans -Peter Drögemüller quoted him as follows:

" An imposed with hardness religion is worthless in the face of God, and therefore worthless for his people. A veil, a woman forced by violence is much worse than no veil. "

These views were opposed to those of the revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Therefore came in 1979 in Tehran suspected, Taleghani had been eliminated. Many said: " Beheshti has Taleqani killed. " However, the suspicion could be neither confirm nor dispel. Three days after the death Taleqanis Assembly of Experts decided Khomeini's principle of the rule of the Supreme Leader.

Gallery

Friday prayer led by Taleghani on August 16, 1979 in Tehran a few days before his death

Ebrahim Yazdi with Taleghani, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Hashem Sabbaghian, Ahmad Sadr Haj - Seyed - Dschavadi