Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 86, who was once the heir apparent to lead Iran but fell from favor and spent five years under house arrest as the regime’s most feared dissident, speaks during Eid al Fitr prayers after the end of the Holy month of Ramadan in Qom about 80 miles southwest of Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008.(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)