Iran updates: Montazeri passes away, Iran demands WW2 compensation and occupies oil well in Iraq
Read: Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, official media reported on Sunday. He was 87. He had been named to succeed late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran’s supreme leader, but quarreled with him in 1989 over the mass execution of prisoners. Instead, the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeded Khomeini after he died later the same year.
Read: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a Friday press conference in Copenhagen that he would write a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “asking for Iran to be compensated” for suffering caused to its people during the war and for the usage of its resources by Allied powers.
Read: Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well in a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP. “There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran,” a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
Read: Iraq is protesting an Iranian military incursion and occupation of an Iraqi oil well on its side of the border between the two countries.
