A strong napalm bomb blasted at 3 o’clock on the Sunday’s afternoon 8 Shahrivar, and martyred president Mohammad Ali Rajaii and the prime minister Hoj. Dr. Bahonar and some others were left injured.
This explosion occurred while the National Security Council’s meeting was being held in the presence of the president, the Prime Minister, and the military authorities. Besides these faithful friends of Imam, Mr. Daftarian, the prime ministry’s authority, was also martyred.
Forthwith after the explosion, the guards, fire brigade, the police and emergency services arrived and began the rescue operation. Fire was blazing and the conference room was filled with smoke and soot. The people in other floors were evacuated immediately and the relief teams’ helicopter strove to extinguish the flames of fire.
Meanwhile, having heard the sound of explosion, people gathered outside the building to help the relief teams but the president and the prime minister were not among the injured. Recognition of the burnt dead bodies was also impossible.
Some of the injured were given immediate treatment and some others were rushed to hospital.
At last, at midnight it was to be known, that unfortunately, both the president and the prime minister had surrendered their souls to God.
The assassin was identified as Massoud Kashmiri, an operative of the Monafeghin terrorist grouplet (dubbing themselves as the MKO), who had infiltrated the Prime Minister's office.
Mohammad Ali Rajaee's Biography
Mohammad Ali Rajaee was born in the city of Qazvin in 1933. He lost his father at the age of four but could manage to complete his studies at the elementary school under the supervision of his mother and elder brother.
At the age of 14, he left Qazvin for Tehran to work in Tehran bazaar. Later he took part in the Air Force Entrance Examination at 17. In there, he cooperated with Fadaeeyan Eslam', which carried out activities against Pahlavi regime and benefited from the late Ayatollah Taleqani's classes.
In 1953, for his political activities against Palavi’s regime, he had to resign from the Air Force. Therefore he began his new career in Education Ministry as a mathematics teacher.
In 1970, he left Tehran for the city of Khansar and later returned to Tehran to continue his studies in the field of statistics. Although he continued his political activities and cooperated with Students’ Islamic Association. He was arrested in 1973 and got imprisoned but was released in 1978.
He endured harsh tortures in Savak jail, but he didn’t abandoned his revolutionary aspirations.
After the Islamic Revolution, Rajaee was appointed Minister of Education. In 1980, for his conspicuous activities in order to help the Islamic government, he was appointed prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran and was later elected as president.
In his presidency period, he appointed Shahid Bahonar as his prime minister. His presidency period was along with the beginning of Imposed war and for this reason he faced many difficulties made by internal and external enemies. But he was not dissapointed.
During his life he was so humble and respectful.
Although in the last years of his life, he had high ranking positions but he always preferred to introduce himself as a teacher, not as a minister or president.
He considered these positions as God’s examination and always advised his friends be careful about his behaviors and attributes in order to control his sensual desires.
People were always surprised by seeing his simple life as a president.
Mohammad Javad Bahonar's Biography
Martyr Mohammad Javad Bahonar was born in 1312 (1933) in "Mahalleh Shar" of Kerman. At the age of 5, he entered the tradition school of maktab to learn Quarn and when he was 11, he entered "Masoomiyeh" school of Kerman where he started the theological education. Along with this, Bahonar also under took the normal high school education.
In 1332 (1953) when he was 20 years old, he left for the Holy city of Qom in order to complete his theological education. In Seminary, he enjoyed the guidance of the outstanding figures such as Ayatollah Soltani, Mojahedi and Sheikh Mohammad Javad Esfahani.
Among his other professors one could refer to Ayatollah Borujerdi (the professor of urisprudence (Fiqh), late Imam Khomeini (Rh) the Great founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran (the professor of theological principles (Usul) and Late Alameh Tabatabaee (Rh) (the professor of Quranic Commentary (Tafsir) as well.
He was also successful in his Academic studies for, he completed his studies to the extent that he received his B.A of Theology and later, M.A of pedagogical sciences and finally PhD of theology at Tehran University.
Martyr Dr Mohammad Javad Bahonar in spite of the objections of Savak (then security and intelligent service) was employed in the Ministry of Education.
He was not only involved with teaching, but also was cooperating so closely with the office of propaganda and planning of the education ministry to the extent that the syllabus of religious classes of the different levels was prepared and managed under him.
Along with fore- mentioned activities, he began to write the religious text books for different levels of education which resulted in 40 books and pamphlets. Nothing could make him give up his aims for; even when he was forbidden to give lectures and doing some modifications on the text books.
Thanks to God's blessings and efforts of some of his colleagues, he was dealing with install and run of the office of the spreading the Islamic culture, schools of "Refah" and "Mofid" and the like.
He had been arrested for several times by Shah's regime, due to his politico- religious activities, but he kept right on adhering to his ideas.
After he was freed in 1357 (1977), he officially started his activities through formation of the Islamic Republic party among his colleagues at this time one could refer to Martyr Beheshti who is famous enough in the history of Islamic Revolution.
Bahonar after martyrdom of Dr Beheshti was appointed Secretary General of the party and until the time of his premisrship he held the position.
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