- Supreme leader
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- President
- Ali Khamenei
- Prime minister
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Succeeded by
- Office abolished
- Deputy
- Mohammad Beheshti
- Constituency
- Tehran Province
- Majority
- 1,672,980 (66.24%)
- Appointed by
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Born
- Hussein-Ali Montazeri Najafabadi , ( 1922-09-24 ) 24 September 1922, Najafabad , Qajar Iran
- Died
- 19 December 2009 (2009-12-19) (aged 87), Qom , Iran
- Resting place
- Fatima Masumeh Shrine
- Party
- Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom (1961–2009), Islamic Republican Party (1980–1987)
- Spouse
- Mah-Sultan Rabbani ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1942 )
- Children
- 7, including Mohammad
- Website
- amontazeri.com
- Main interest s
- Fiqh irfan Islamic philosophy Islamic ethics hadith
- Notable idea s
- Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Islamic democracy