"Following a call by some grand ayatollahs to mourn the death
... we announce tomorrow, Monday, December 21, a day of public
mourning," Mousavi and Karroubi said in a joint statement.  "We
invite all saddened religious people mourning the death of this
pride of the Shia world to take part in the funeral of this
legend of endeavour, jurisprudence and spirituality."  Burial
ceremony  Montazeri will be buried in the shrine of Masoumeh, a
revered Shia figure, in Qom, his office said.  "He didn't fear
expressing his views, critical of the current supreme leader or
the policies of the government"  Baqer Moin, Iranian journalist
and author  Foreign media are banned from covering the ceremony.
"Thousands of people from Isfahan, Najafabad, Shiraz and
other cities have left for Qom to take part in his funeral,"
Parlemannews.ir, the website of the parliament's reformist
faction, reported.  Videos posted on the internet purported to
show hundreds of Montazeri's supporters taking to the streets of
Najafabad, his birth to