“They stole the bread” … An Iranian cleric takes off his turban!

The Iranian cleric, Ayn Allah Reza Zadeh Goebari, announced that he had removed the cleric’s turban and robe, “in honor of the blood of the Iranian youth, which he said was unjustly shed by the jurist’s tutelage regime,” as he he said himself.

In details, Goibari, known for his harsh criticism of the Iranian regime, attacked, in a video he posted on social media, what he described as “the exploitation of Shiite jurisprudence for the sake of the tutelage of the jurist,” saying that the clerics Rulers in Iran have distorted the basic provisions of Islamic law to maintain their authority.

He added that bread was stolen under the name of fighting unbelief, and emphasized that religion has been contaminated by political clerics.

The opposition cleric also concluded his speech by saying: “I take off this turban and will wear the Iranian and patriotic hat of honor, and I bow to the free will of the Iranian people, which will be achieved in the near future.”

Notably, Ain Allah Reza Zadeh Goebari is considered one of the critical men of the ruling jurist regime in Iran, and has been arrested and imprisoned many times over the past decades.

The charges against him several times during his detention include “propaganda against the system” and “spreading lies”.

Goibari was first arrested in 1990 for opposing the Wilayat al-Faqih issue and appointing Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, and was detained in the clerical wing of the central prison in Qom.

In 2002 he was arrested several times and imprisoned for periods ranging from one week to two months each time. In 2006, he wrote a 200-page critical letter to Ali Khamenei from his residence in Syria, and spent a year in prison after returning to Iran for it.

Goebari was imprisoned again in 2017, and was sentenced to eight years in prison and two years in exile, but was pardoned by the Iranian Supreme Leader after spending a year in prison in the city of Sari in northern Iran, and then was sentenced to exile in the city of Takab.

Goibari’s case is still open to the courts, since he was detained by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry last December, due to his participation in the funeral for the dead from the protests last November, where he spent 5 nights in the intelligence center of the city of Urmia, and went on a hunger strike for 13 nights in a prison. Miyandoab, who was transferred prior to his release, up to the date of his trial, which has yet to be decided.