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Thread on Shaheed Mohammad-Javad Bahonar 1933-1981.

Bahonar served as the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷 for less than 1 month.

Bahonar was born on 3 September 1933 in Kerman, Iran. He was raised in poverty, his father was a simple tradesman in the city of Kerman, he was taught the Quran at the local 'Makk-tab-Khaneh' (Madressa). Under the guidance of Ayatollah Haghighi, he studied at the Masoumieh Hawza.

In 1953, he went to Qom Seminary and attended classes under supervision or Imam Khomeini (RH), the leader of Iranian revolution. He received a PhD in theology from the University of Tehran.

Bahonar was opposed to the Pahlavi regime and led silent protests and activities against Mohammad Reza Shah that led to imprisonment multiple times. In 1963, he was jailed for opposing the Shah's White Revolution.

During the exile of Imam Khomeini in Iraq and France, Bahonar maintained his revolutionary activities and was an influential member.

Upon his release, Bahonar remained relatively apolitical until Imam Khomeini became the leader of Iran. For his service in the revolution, Bahonar served in the new government's ministry of culture and Islamic guidance in 1981.

Bahonar served as the minister of culture and Islamic guidance under Mohammad Ali Rajai's prime ministerialship from March 1981 to August 1981. When Rajai became president on 5 August 1981, he chose Bahonar as his prime minister.

Regarding the intra-government activities of Bahonar. He was a founding member of the Islamic Republican party, an original member of the Council of Revolution of Iran and a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts.

On 30 August 1981 within a month in office as PM, Bahonar was martyred with Rajai and other members of Islamic Republican Party when a bomb exploded at the party's office in Tehran. This attack is known as the Hashteh-Shahrivar bombing.

The bomb was set off when one of the victims opened a briefcase. The perpetrator of the bombing was MEK agent Massoud Keshmiri who infiltrated the Islamic Republican Party as a security official. One week later, Keshmiri was announced as responsible for the attack.

MEK (Mojahedin-e-Khalq) aptly referred to as 'Monafeegheen-e-Khalq' are a terrorist organisation within Iran known for plotting assassinations and siding with Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war against their own countrymen and country.

Bahonar was aged 47 when he was martyred. Serving as Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month. Buried in Behesht e Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran. May Allah bless him and all the Martyrs of the revolution, Ameen 🤲.

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