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...bomb blast at the Prime Minister's office was a severe, though not necessarily a mortal, blow to the beleaguered regime of the autocratic, 81-year-old Khomeini. But it was the most convincing evidence yet that as Iran's revolution continues to devour itself, the nation may be moving toward civil...
Although no group publicly admitted responsibility for the bombing, a Mujahedin leader told TIME last week that it was the work of his organization, the very group Raja'i and 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...
...moved swiftly to fill the vacuum created by the two earlier deaths. Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Chief Justice Ayatullah Moussavi Ardabeli jointly assumed the 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...
...Khomeini conceded that the loss of his President and Prime Minister was "difficult to bear," but he insisted that his regime would survive. "Our nation will not be shaken at all," he declared in a sermon delivered at the Hoseiniyeh Jamaran mosque north of Tehran. Though Khomeini asked his followers not to be "hasty and un-Islamic" in their treatment of suspects, his admonitions fell on deaf ears: last week Islamic tribunals sent 138 more opponents, including some teen-age girls, before firing squads, raising the total number of political executions since Banisadr's ouster on June...
...Mujahedin flinch. On the day of the Raja'i and Bahonar funerals, Mujahedin gunmen assassinated two more ranking Khomeini supporters. One was Hojjatoleslam Seyed Nasser Banijamal, director of internal affairs at Tehran's Court for Combatting Sin. Three days later, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards fought an eight-hour gun battle with Mujahedin in Tehran's streets. According to the government's own reports, more than 100 similar shootouts with Mujahedin and other leftist guerrillas have erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border...