The office of Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran, was bombed on 30 August 1981 killing Bahonar, President Mohammad-Ali Rajai, and six other Iranian government officials. The briefcase bomb
The Iranian PM building after the explosion
Front page of Ettela'at newspaper, reporting the blast
The Iranian Prime Minister's office after the 1981 explosion
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani elected as prime minister by parliament in 1981
Haft-e Tir bombing
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On 28 June 1981, a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-four leading officials of the Islamic
1981 Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing
…August 1981 killing Bahonar, President Mohammad-Ali Rajai, and six other Iranian government officials. The briefcase bombing came two months after the Hafte Tir bombing, which killed over seventy senior Iranian officials, including Chief Justice Mohammad Beheshti, then Iran's second-highest official. According to…
Martyrs of 7th Tir on stamp
Haft-e Tir bombing victims mausoleum, designed by Mir-Hossein Mousavi