Personal Life
One of his sons, Mohammad Montazeri, died in a bomb blast at Islamic Republican Party headquarters in 1981 carried out by the People's Mujahedin of Iran; another, Saeed Montazeri, lost an eye in the Iran-Iraq war in 1985. Another son, Ahmad Montazeri, is a cleric in Qom.
He was described by Ayatollah Mohammad Guilani as "meticulous about, if not obsessed by, cleanliness."
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