How Quarreling Ayatullahs Affect Iran's Crisis
One leading conservative ayatullah declared, during Friday prayers at Tehran University, that people protesting Iran's election are waging war on God. Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami demanded that those calling for demonstrations be "ruthlessly and savagely" punished. Yet just a day earlier, one of the country's most senior mullahs, Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri — a longtime liberal critic of the regime — branded the authorities' response to the election protests un-Islamic...