Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani was a senior Shia cleric of Iran. Shiʻa Islam (Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite) makes up the second largest sect of believers in Islam, constituting about 30%–35% of all Muslim. ...
A senior to Ayatollah Khomeini, he was born in the town of Taleqan in the Alborz mountains. Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیتالله روحالله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran. ... Alborz Mountains underneath clouds seen from Tehran Alborz (in Persian البرز), also written as Alburz or Elburz, is a mountain range in northern Iran, stretching from the borders of Armenia in the north-west to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, where also Tehran and Irans highest peak, Damavand...
he was considered a moderate in his vews, among them, he declared Hijab as not being mandatory. Hijab (Arabic: Øجاب) is the Arabic term for barrier or dressing modestly. ...
Ayatollah Kashani and his son played major roles during the coup as well as during the activities prior to the coup.[2] Kashani was publically attacking Mossadegh and supporting the Shah since late 1952.
Torture by monarchists included rape of daughters of political prisoners in front of their eyes; the most infamous case being the rape of the daughter of Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, the respected liberal cleric, a leader in the resistence to the coup regime since August 1953 coup and a member of INF until 1961.
Ayatollah Uzma Brujerdi, the highest ranked cleric, gave quiet support to the Shah before and after the coup without playing a major role during the operations of the coup.
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