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...Bahonar's charred bodies could be identified only with the help of dental records. Six other men in the room also died, and 14 were injured. The choice of Raja'i and Bahonar was purposeful with a vengeance. Only a week earlier ousted President Abolhassan Banisadr, now living in exile in France, had put the pair at the top of a list of five men whose deaths could bring down the regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the man who led the revolution that toppled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi just 31 months ago. Raja...
...Bahonar were discussing as they were killed. Of the dozen factions that oppose Khomeini, the Mujahedin have emerged as the best organized and the most likely to bid for power in the event of the regime's collapse. Their leader, Massoud Rajavi, 34, is hardly known abroad-unlike Banisadr, whose escape to France was engineered by the Mujahedin. But with thousands of armed men at his command inside Iran, Rajavi poses the most serious single threat to Khomeini's Islamic Republic. The attack on the Prime Minister's office confirmed that the Mujahedin have penetrated the highest...
...presidency until new elections are held, at the latest by Oct. 19, to fill the vacancy. They named another cleric and Khomeini intimate, Interior Minister Ayatullah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, 50, as Prime Minister; as one of his first tasks Kani pledged to improve security. The three, who complete Banisadr's five-man hit list, also vowed to press on with a purge aimed at eliminating their opposition. The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement blaming the U.S. and Iraq for the attack, and demonstrators chanted, "Death to America, the Great Satan!" as the two coffins were carried through...
...need to worship is the main problem with us Iranians. In 1976, we worshiped the Shah; in 1979, Khomeini. Now we are beginning to revere Banisadr [Aug. 10] and the Mujahedin. Unfortunately, the Mujahedin's alternative to Khomeini's tyrannical chaos is also a mixture of religion and government...
...escape of Iran's ousted President Banisadr reminds me of Alexander Kerensky, who in the 1917 Russian Revolution brought his people to the brink of an abyss and national calamity, then fled...