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Passing Through Crisis:
Ayatollah Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (Persian: محمد حسینی بهشتی), (October 24, 1928 - June 28, 1981) was an Iranian cleric, the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party, and the head of the Islamic Republic's judicial system. He was assassinated together with more than seventy members of the Islamic Republic party on June 28, 1981.

Beheshti was born in Isfahan and studied both at the University of Tehran and under Allameh Tabatabaei in Qom.

Between 1960 and 1965, he led the Islamic Center in Hamburg [1], where he was responsible for the spiritual leadership of religious Iranian students in Germany and Western Europe. In Hamburg, he also worked with Mohammad Khatami and was among his influences. Since the early 1960s, he was involved in activities against the monarchy and was arrested several times by the Shah's secret police, the SAVAK.

Following the Iranian Revolution, he became one of the original members of the Council of Revolution of Iran and soon its chairman. In the first post-revolutionary Iranian parliament, he led the Islamic Republic party together with Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. ( He never campaigned for the parliament though , as he was already the head of Iran Supreme Judicial System ). He was also planning to run for Iranian presidency in the first presidential elections, but withdrew after Ayatollah Khomeini told a delegation of Rafsanjani and Khamenei that he prefers non-clerics as presidents, which led to Islamic Republic party's endorsement of first Jalaleddin Farsi and then, inevitably, Abolhassan Banisadr.

Beheshti died by assassination on June 28, 1981, when a bomb exploded during a party conference. The bomb was planted by the Mujahideen al-Khalq organization who at that time were involved in a campaign of bombings and terror attacks against officials and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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  • khoda lanateshon kone in mojahedino khoda azabeshon o to in donia va on donia ziad kone/khoda aberoshono bebare/enshallah hamashon bad tarin bimari haie roie donia ro begiran

    khodaia to shahedi ke in mojahedin che kardan ba iran/lanate man be heshon

  • he never said all these things. Besides, he joined Mujahedine before they went to Irak. He left them when they decided to fight against Iran (1983).

    If he was a dictator then why didn't he stay with Khmoeyni ?

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  • Today Ayatollah Khameini praised Palestinian suicide bombers and called Americans 'The Terrorists" citing the 1988 USS Vincennes incident and civiian casualties in Afghanistan.

    Khameini - you are a damned fool. I was there in 88. You fail to point out that your gunships were shooting at us and the airbus had an attack profile AND was filled with corpses. A set up.

    If we were terrorists, we would nuke you. If you terrorists had nukes...would you restrain the same manner? No.

    Animals-all of U

  • @high5ive2006 in fact if u have time go to Bani Sadr's site and

    look for his speech in University of Tehran where he asks his supporters to separate themselves from the opponents so

    "تا مردم حساب این ها را برسند."

    many of those were thrown from second floor by bani Sadr's supporters and he cheered them on, some were knifed, the same thing that right

    wing in Iran is doing Bani Sadr did then .

  • @Golab2222 Look Bani Sadr and his son in law Masooud Rajavi

    assassinated their political opponents,

    are you denying this? Bani Sadr thought he could win by

    physical elimination of his political opponents

    I am glad that Green Movement is smart enough not to adopt violence

    as a tool to gain power.

  • @high5ive2006 I saw a video on youtube in which it shows he argues with Pasdars and actualy he was the one who started complaining and eventually fighting with khomeini over torturing and execution og as many as thousands of political prisoners.

  • @Golab2222

    Banj Sadr and his then Son in law

    Massoud Rajavi began assassination of

    their political opponents , a violence

    that was introduced into Iranian politics

    and now the same viloence is being used by

    Iranian right wing. Bani Sadr and his terror campaign

    was not a sign of democracy I hope not :)

  • @high5ive2006 Bani sadr was a democrat!!! he was a human right defender!!!!!

  • این حرف رو خلخالی زد نه بنی صدر .من خودم همون موقع در روزناهه خوندم.

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