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...Prime Minister looked like a fortress under siege. Heavily armed Revolutionary Guards and machine gun-equipped Jeeps ringed the building; sharpshooters carrying G-3 automatic rifles were poised behind sandbags on the roof. Inside the compound, on the second story of a modern administrative annex, President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar were attending a meeting so secret that its time and place had not been made public. The agenda: how to improve security against urban guerrillas, notably the Mujahedine Khalq (People's Crusaders), who had killed some 200 government officials in a concerted...
...blast of the incendiary bomb was so powerful that Raja'i's and 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...
...French 'hostages.' " Ironically, no other industrialized country has tried as hard as France to stay on the good side of Iran's revolutionary regime. President Mitterrand was one of the few Western leaders to send congratulations to Iran after the July 24 election of Mohammed Ali Raja'i as the country's latest Islamic President. But France, the country that provided political asylum for four months to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and for years to some of his closest aides, two weeks ago gave haven to Raja'i's predecessor, the ousted Abolhassan Banisadr...
...President Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, has gradually emerged as the strongest of the three, by virtue of his leadership of the clergy-controlled Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.), the dominant political party in Iran. The other council members were Parliamentary Speaker Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, who has assumed Banisadr's presidential functions until the July elections, when an I.R.P. candidate is expected...
...allegations, Banisadr dramatically amplified his oft-repeated charge that the I.R.P. power brokers would stop at nothing to consolidate their position. Whether by force or otherwise, the mullahs clearly would have preferred to eliminate Banisadr as a political leader after sweeping last spring's parliamentary elections and ensconcing Raja'i as their figurehead Prime Minister. But the intervening war with Iraq greatly strengthened the President's hand by giving him an active military role as Commander in Chief and winning him the crucial support of the army. Says Barry Rubin of the Georgetown Center for Strategic...