Shobeiri Zanjani: The quiet ayatollah who bridged Iran’s political divide

When Grand Ayatollah Mousa Shobeiri Zanjani died at 98 on 20 September, he left behind a rare position in Iran’s religious establishment: a cleric who kept his distance from political power, yet whose influence reached across the Islamic Republic’s deepest political divides.

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