Mohammad-Javad Bahonar

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Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
محمدجواد باهنر
Kerman Province
Majority205,765 (80.2%)
Personal details
Born(1933-09-05)5 September 1933
Kerman, Imperial State of Persia
Died30 August 1981(1981-08-30) (aged 47)
Tehran, Iran
Resting placeHafte Tir Mausoleum
Political partyIslamic Republican Party
SpouseZahra Eynakian (1966–1981, his death)[1]
RelativesMohammad-Reza Bahonar (brother)
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
Signature

Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (

Mujahideen-e Khalq.[3]

Early life

Mohammad Javad Bahonar was born on 3 September 1933 in Kerman, Iran.[4] His father was a simple tradesman and had a little shop in the city of Kerman.[5] He was the second child of nine, and his family was very poor. As a child, he was taught the Quran at the local Makk-tab-Khaneh (parochial school attended by the students very often at the house of local mullah before national school system was put in place) also learning to read and write Persian. Guided by the Ayatollah Haghighi, he studied at the Masoumieh seminary. At the same time he could obtain the degree of fifth of ancient school.[6]

Education

Bahonar passed his primary school at Masoumieh School of

PhD in theology from the University of Tehran.[7] Also, he was faculty member of the Tehran University and taught religious lessons and theology.[3][7][9]

Revolutionary activities

Before Iranian revolution

Bahonar was a reviler of the

Morteza Motahari was active speaker of Hosseiniyeh Ershad, a religious lecture hall in the Tehran.[9]

After Iranian revolution

Upon release from custody, Bahonar did not engage in further activism until Khomeini became Iran's de facto ruler. For his service in the revolution, Bahonar became the new government's ministry of culture and Islamic guidance in 1981, and was responsible for censoring any media disapproved by Muslim leaders in Tehran. He also directed a purge of all secular influence from Iranian universities.[11]

He also became a founding member of

Mohammad Ali Rajai's prime ministry from March 1981 to August 1981. When Rajai became president on 5 August 1981, he chose Bahonar as his prime minister.[13]

Assassination

Main article: 1981 Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing

Bahonar was assassinated along with Rajai and other members of

Mujahedin that was supported by Saddam Hussein.[4][3] He tried to assassinate Rajai and Bahonar on 22 August when Rajai introduced his cabinet to Ruhollah Khomeini. Ahmad Khomeini explained that Keshmiri was with Rajai when they came to see Imam Khomeini. He had a suitcase but they did not allow him to bring it.[8]
He died at age 47.

Iranian authorities announced that Massoud Keshmiri, "a close aide to the late President Muhammad Ali Rajai and secretary of the Supreme Security Council, had been responsible." Keshmiri, an MEK member who was thought to have died in the explosion, "was accorded a martyr's funeral" and was "buried alongside Rajai and Bahonar."[16][17][18][19] Various MEK supporters were arrested and executed in reprisal, but Kashmiri apparently slipped through the dragnet.[20] The reaction to both bombings was intense with many arrests and executions of MEK and other leftist groups.[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ شهید باهنر به روایت همسر
  2. ISBN 978-1-60127-084-9
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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mohammad Javad Bahonar (Prime minister of Iran)". Encyclopædia Britannica.
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  5. ^ "An index of memories of Mohammad Javad Bahona". Maryrdom and Sacrifice. Archived from the original on 18 January 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  6. ^ Ensari(in Persian) Archived 20 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ a b c d e "Joint Crisis: Supreme Defense Council of Iran, 1980" (PDF). Harvard Model United Nations. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85043-128-2
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  10. ISBN 978-0-275-97187-8
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  11. ISBN 978-1-61069-286-1
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  12. ^
    doi:10.5539/jpl.v4n1p221
    . Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  13. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8444-1187-3
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  14. ISBN 978-81-317-2790-4
    . Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  15. ^ Nikou, Semira N. "Timeline of Iran's Political Events". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  16. ^ Moin 2001, pp. 242–3.
  17. ^ James Dorsey (15 September 1981), "Iran's rebels getting bolder day by day", The Christian Science Monitor, retrieved 1 June 2018
  18. ^ "Iran: Secret agent was bomber". The Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. 14 September 1981. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  19. ISBN 978-1-135-04381-0
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  20. ISBN 978-1-61069-286-1
    . Although the Bahonar-Rajai assassination was solved with identification of bomber Massoud Kashmiri as an MEK agent he remained unpunished. Various mujahedin were arrested and executedin reprisal, but Kashmiri apparently slipped through the dragnet.
  21. ^ Moin 2001, p. 243.

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Education
1980–1981 		Succeeded by
Ali Akbar Parvaresh
Preceded by
Mohammad Ali Rajai
 Prime Minister of Iran
1981 		Succeeded by
Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani
Party political offices
Preceded by Secretary-General of the Islamic Republican Party
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