The Hafte Tir bombing: A bomb exploded in the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) headquarters building during a meeting of almost the entire leadership

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28. Juni 1981

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31.25° N, 29.99° E

Platziert: coordinates of the event it links, Haft-e Tir bombing.

The Hafte Tir bombing: A bomb exploded in the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) headquarters building during a meeting of almost the entire leadership. Over seventy were killed, including Chief Justice Mohammad Beheshti (the second most powerful man in Iran at the time, after Ruhollah Khomeini), several cabinet members, and 27 members of the Majles (Islamic Consultative Assembly or parliament.) Numerous additional attacks on the leadership followed. Ali Khamenei, later to become the second Supreme Leader of Iran, had been wounded by a bomb concealed in a tape recorder on June 27. Mohammad-Ali Rajai was assassinated on August 30.

1981 attack on the Islamic Republican Party headquarters in Tehran, Iran

On 28 June 1981, a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-four leading officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran were killed, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, who was the second most powerful figure in the Iranian Revolution.

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