Iran's Rebel Ayatollah - Iran

March 2006 Ayatollah Montezeri was Khomeini's heir apparent until he turned his back on the revolution he helped found. Despite the threats, he's continued to rail against Iran's government. "Until the government rethinks what it is doing to this country the situation is really dangerous", Ayatollah Montezeri states. He was stripped of his political inheritance, branded a traitor and heretic and placed under house arrest after he questioned his old friend Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Montezeri believes all violence is Unislamic. "There were no political prisoners during the reign of our prophet". He calls for diplomatic relations with America and has spoken out fearlessly against the government's crushing of dissidents. "It makes me laugh when I hear the press say we respect human rights in Iran. It's a joke". Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures