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On 28 June 1981 (7 ] 1360 ('''Hafte Tir''' – هفت تیر) in the ]), a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Iran ] (IRP) in ], while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-three leading officials of the Islamic Republic were killed, including Chief Justice ]<ref name = "Atheism">{{Citation|url= http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/countries/bl_IranRevolutionTerror.htm|publisher=About|type=FAQ|title=Atheism| contribution=Religion in Iran – Terror and Repression}}</ref><ref name="The Daily News - June 1981">{{Citation|title=Eighties club|url= http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id112.htm|newspaper=The Daily News|date=June 1981}}</ref><ref name="The Daily News - June 1981"/><ref name = "ABC">{{Citation|url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=72375|title=Iran ABC News broadcast|work=The Vanderbilt Television News Archive}}</ref> (who was the second-most powerful figure in the revolution after Ayatollah ] at the time). The Islamic Republic of Iran first blamed ] and the Iraqi regime. Two days later, the ] was accused <ref>{{cite book |last1=Colgan |first1=Jeff |title=Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War |publisher=Cambridge University Press 2013 |isbn=9781107029675 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enReCU97-zQC&pg=PA167&dq=1981+IRP+headquarter+bombing+mujahedin+khalq&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjax-bygrHiAhVok4sKHW34CWsQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=set%20off%20a%20bomb%20in%20the%20conference%20hall%20of%20the%20IRP%20headquarters%2C%20which%20killed&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=S. Ismael |first1=Jacqueline |last2=Perry |first2=Glenn |last3=Y. Ismael |first3=Tareq |title=Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and change |publisher=Routledge (2015) |isbn=9781317662839 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AKpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA181&dq=IRP+headquarter+bombing+MEK&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiayb7hgbHiAhXuwsQBHdJnB7sQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=From%20June%20through%20September%2C%20bombs%20planted%20by%20MEK-notably%20in%20the%20IRP%20headquarters%20and%20governmental%20offices%2C%20killed%20hundreds&f=false}}</ref><ref name="ABC-CLIO">{{cite book |last1=Newton |first1=Michael |title=Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia |publisher=ABC-CLIO (2014) |isbn=9781610692861 |page=27 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4-dAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=IRP+headquarter+bombing+MEK&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiayb7hgbHiAhXuwsQBHdJnB7sQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=One%20week%20after%20his%20removal%2C%20MEK's%20militants%20bombed%20IRP%20headquarters%2C%20killing%2070%20high-ranking%20members&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pedde |first1=Nicola |title=ROLE AND EVOLUTION OF THE MOJAHEDIN E-KA |url=https://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/vaseteh/article/download/3153/3137 |website=ojs.uniroma1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=McGreal |first1=Chris |title=Q&A: what is the MEK and why did the US call it a terrorist organisation? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/sep/21/qanda-mek-us-terrorist-organisation |website=theguardian |accessdate=21 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="rand">{{cite web |last1=Goulka |first1=Jeremiah |last2=Larson |first2=Judith |last3=Wilke |first3=Elizabeth |last4=Hansell |first4=Lydia |title=The MEK in Iraq (2009) |url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf |website=rand}}</ref> by ]<ref name="time"/>. Later a Kermanshah tribunal executed four "Iraqi agents" for the incident, and a tribunal in ] executed Mehdi Tafari for the same incident. In 1985, the head of military intelligence informed the press that this had been the work of royalist army officers. Iran's security forces blamed the United States<ref>{{cite book|title=Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) Shackled by a Twisted History|author= Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. |year=2013|publisher=University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs|isbn=978-0615783840|pages=27}}</ref> and "internal mercenaries".<ref>{{Citation|title=33 HIGH IRANIAN OFFICIALS DIE IN BOMBIMG AT PARTY MEETING; CHIEF JUDGE IS AMONG VICTIMS|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|newspaper=NY Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ervand |last=Abrahamian |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219-220}}</ref> |
On 28 June 1981 (7 ] 1360 ('''Hafte Tir''' – هفت تیر) in the ]), a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Iran ] (IRP) in ], while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-three leading officials of the Islamic Republic were killed, including Chief Justice ]<ref name = "Atheism">{{Citation|url= http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/countries/bl_IranRevolutionTerror.htm|publisher=About|type=FAQ|title=Atheism| contribution=Religion in Iran – Terror and Repression}}</ref><ref name="The Daily News - June 1981">{{Citation|title=Eighties club|url= http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id112.htm|newspaper=The Daily News|date=June 1981}}</ref><ref name="The Daily News - June 1981"/><ref name = "ABC">{{Citation|url = http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=72375|title=Iran ABC News broadcast|work=The Vanderbilt Television News Archive}}</ref> (who was the second-most powerful figure in the revolution after Ayatollah ] at the time). The Islamic Republic of Iran first blamed ] and the Iraqi regime. Two days later, the ] was accused <ref>{{cite book |last1=Colgan |first1=Jeff |title=Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War |publisher=Cambridge University Press 2013 |isbn=9781107029675 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enReCU97-zQC&pg=PA167&dq=1981+IRP+headquarter+bombing+mujahedin+khalq&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjax-bygrHiAhVok4sKHW34CWsQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=set%20off%20a%20bomb%20in%20the%20conference%20hall%20of%20the%20IRP%20headquarters%2C%20which%20killed&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=S. Ismael |first1=Jacqueline |last2=Perry |first2=Glenn |last3=Y. Ismael |first3=Tareq |title=Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and change |publisher=Routledge (2015) |isbn=9781317662839 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AKpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA181&dq=IRP+headquarter+bombing+MEK&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiayb7hgbHiAhXuwsQBHdJnB7sQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=From%20June%20through%20September%2C%20bombs%20planted%20by%20MEK-notably%20in%20the%20IRP%20headquarters%20and%20governmental%20offices%2C%20killed%20hundreds&f=false}}</ref><ref name="ABC-CLIO">{{cite book |last1=Newton |first1=Michael |title=Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia |publisher=ABC-CLIO (2014) |isbn=9781610692861 |page=27 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4-dAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=IRP+headquarter+bombing+MEK&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiayb7hgbHiAhXuwsQBHdJnB7sQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=One%20week%20after%20his%20removal%2C%20MEK's%20militants%20bombed%20IRP%20headquarters%2C%20killing%2070%20high-ranking%20members&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pedde |first1=Nicola |title=ROLE AND EVOLUTION OF THE MOJAHEDIN E-KA |url=https://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/vaseteh/article/download/3153/3137 |website=ojs.uniroma1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=McGreal |first1=Chris |title=Q&A: what is the MEK and why did the US call it a terrorist organisation? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/sep/21/qanda-mek-us-terrorist-organisation |website=theguardian |accessdate=21 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="rand">{{cite web |last1=Goulka |first1=Jeremiah |last2=Larson |first2=Judith |last3=Wilke |first3=Elizabeth |last4=Hansell |first4=Lydia |title=The MEK in Iraq (2009) |url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf |website=rand}}</ref> by ]<ref name="time"/>. Later a Kermanshah tribunal executed four "Iraqi agents" for the incident, and a tribunal in ] executed Mehdi Tafari for the same incident. In 1985, the head of military intelligence informed the press that this had been the work of royalist army officers. Iran's security forces blamed the United States<ref>{{cite book|title=Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) Shackled by a Twisted History|author= Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. |year=2013|publisher=University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs|isbn=978-0615783840|pages=27}}</ref> and "internal mercenaries".<ref>{{Citation|title=33 HIGH IRANIAN OFFICIALS DIE IN BOMBIMG AT PARTY MEETING; CHIEF JUDGE IS AMONG VICTIMS|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|newspaper=NY Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ervand |last=Abrahamian |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219-220}}</ref> | ||
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A few years later, a Kermanshah tribunal executed four "Iraqi agents" for the incident. Another tribunal in ] executed Mehdi Tafari for the same incident. In 1985, the head of military intelligence informed the press that this had been the work of royalist army officers.<ref name="Bloomfield"/>Iran's security forces blamed the United States (referring to it as the ])<ref name="Bloomfield">{{cite book|title=Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) Shackled by a Twisted History|author= Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. |year=2013|publisher=University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs|isbn=978-0615783840|pages=27}}</ref> and "internal mercenaries".<ref>{{Citation|title=33 HIGH IRANIAN OFFICIALS DIE IN BOMBIMG AT PARTY MEETING; CHIEF JUDGE IS AMONG VICTIMS|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|newspaper=NY Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ervand |last=Abrahamian |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219-220}}</ref> Assassinations of "leading officials and active supporters of the regime by the Mujahedin were to continue for the next year or two," though they failed to overthrow the government.<ref name="Moin, Baqer 2001 p.243">Moin, Baqer, ''Khomeini'', Thomas Dunne Books, (2001), p.243</ref> According State.gov website, the MEK "detonated bombs in the head office of theIslamic Republic Party and the Premier’s office", although the report has since been taken down from the website.<ref>{{cite web |title=Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations |url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c0T-_vTVI2QJ:https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65479.pdf+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ir |website=www.state.gov |accessdate=10 December 2018}}</ref> | A few years later, a Kermanshah tribunal executed four "Iraqi agents" for the incident. Another tribunal in ] executed Mehdi Tafari for the same incident. In 1985, the head of military intelligence informed the press that this had been the work of royalist army officers.<ref name="Bloomfield"/>Iran's security forces blamed the United States (referring to it as the ])<ref name="Bloomfield">{{cite book|title=Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) Shackled by a Twisted History|author= Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. |year=2013|publisher=University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs|isbn=978-0615783840|pages=27}}</ref> and "internal mercenaries".<ref>{{Citation|title=33 HIGH IRANIAN OFFICIALS DIE IN BOMBIMG AT PARTY MEETING; CHIEF JUDGE IS AMONG VICTIMS|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|newspaper=NY Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ervand |last=Abrahamian |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219-220}}</ref> Assassinations of "leading officials and active supporters of the regime by the Mujahedin were to continue for the next year or two," though they failed to overthrow the government.<ref name="Moin, Baqer 2001 p.243">Moin, Baqer, ''Khomeini'', Thomas Dunne Books, (2001), p.243</ref> According State.gov website, the MEK "detonated bombs in the head office of theIslamic Republic Party and the Premier’s office", although the report has since been taken down from the website.<ref>{{cite web |title=Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations |url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c0T-_vTVI2QJ:https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65479.pdf+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ir |website=www.state.gov |accessdate=10 December 2018}}</ref> | ||
According to the 2006 ] Country reports says that "In 1981, the MEK detonated bombs in the head office of the Islamic Republic Party and the Premier's office, killing some 70 high-ranking Iranian officials."<ref>{{cite web |title=Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2005/65275.htm |website=www.state.gov |accessdate=10 December 2018}}</ref> According to Kenneth Katzman, "there has been much speculation among academics and observers that these bombing may have actually been planned by senior IRP leaders, including current Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, to rid themselves of rivals with the IRP"<ref>{{cite book|title=Iran: Outlaw, Outcast, Or Normal Country?|author1=Kenneth Katzman|publisher=Nova Publishers|year=2001|isbn=978-1-56072-954-9|editor=Albert V. Benliot|p=101|chapter=Iran: The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran}}</ref> | |||
According to ], "whatever the truth, the Islamic Republic used the incident to wage war on the Left opposition in general and the Mojahedin in particular."<ref>{{cite book|title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219-220}}</ref> According to Kenneth Katzman, "there has been much speculation among academics and observers that these bombings may have actually been planned by senior IRP leaders, to rid themselves of rivals within the IRP."<ref name="Outlaw">{{cite book|title=Iran: Outlaw, Outcast, Or Normal Country?|author1=Kenneth Katzman|publisher=Nova Publishers|year=2001|isbn=978-1-56072-954-9|editor=Albert V. Benliot|p=101|chapter=Iran: The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran}}</ref> | According to ], "whatever the truth, the Islamic Republic used the incident to wage war on the Left opposition in general and the Mojahedin in particular."<ref>{{cite book|title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219-220}}</ref> According to Kenneth Katzman, "there has been much speculation among academics and observers that these bombings may have actually been planned by senior IRP leaders, to rid themselves of rivals within the IRP."<ref name="Outlaw">{{cite book|title=Iran: Outlaw, Outcast, Or Normal Country?|author1=Kenneth Katzman|publisher=Nova Publishers|year=2001|isbn=978-1-56072-954-9|editor=Albert V. Benliot|p=101|chapter=Iran: The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran}}</ref> |
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Location | Tehran, Iran |
Coordinates | 31°15′17″N 29°59′37″E / 31.254825°N 29.993677°E / 31.254825; 29.993677 |
Date | 28 June 1981 20:20 local time (UTC+3) |
Target | IRP leaders |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
Deaths | 73 |
On 28 June 1981 (7 Tir 1360 (Hafte Tir – هفت تیر) in the Iranian calendar), a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Iran Islamic Republic Party (IRP) in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-three leading officials of the Islamic Republic were killed, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti (who was the second-most powerful figure in the revolution after Ayatollah Khomeini at the time). The Islamic Republic of Iran first blamed SAVAK and the Iraqi regime. Two days later, the People's Mujahedin of Iran was accused by Ruhollah Khomeini. Later a Kermanshah tribunal executed four "Iraqi agents" for the incident, and a tribunal in Tehran executed Mehdi Tafari for the same incident. In 1985, the head of military intelligence informed the press that this had been the work of royalist army officers. Iran's security forces blamed the United States and "internal mercenaries".
Bombing
On 28 June 1981 the Hafte tir bombing occurred killing the chief justice and party secretary Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers (Health, transport, telecommunications and energy ministers), twenty-seven members of the Majlis, including Mohammad Montazeri, and several other government officials.
Suspects
Khomeini accused the PMOI to be responsible and, according to BBC journalist Baqer Moin, the Mujahedin were "generally perceived as the culprits" for the bombing in Iran. The Mujahedin never publicly confirmed or denied any responsibility for the deed, but stated the attack was ‘a natural and necessary reaction to the regime's atrocities.’ The bomber was identified as a young student and Mujahedin operative by the name of Mohammad Reza Kolahi, who had secured a job in the building disguised as a sound engineer.
A few years later, a Kermanshah tribunal executed four "Iraqi agents" for the incident. Another tribunal in Tehran executed Mehdi Tafari for the same incident. In 1985, the head of military intelligence informed the press that this had been the work of royalist army officers.Iran's security forces blamed the United States (referring to it as the Great Satan) and "internal mercenaries". Assassinations of "leading officials and active supporters of the regime by the Mujahedin were to continue for the next year or two," though they failed to overthrow the government. According State.gov website, the MEK "detonated bombs in the head office of theIslamic Republic Party and the Premier’s office", although the report has since been taken down from the website.
According to the 2006 U.S. department of state Country reports says that "In 1981, the MEK detonated bombs in the head office of the Islamic Republic Party and the Premier's office, killing some 70 high-ranking Iranian officials." According to Kenneth Katzman, "there has been much speculation among academics and observers that these bombing may have actually been planned by senior IRP leaders, including current Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, to rid themselves of rivals with the IRP"
According to Ervand Abrahamian, "whatever the truth, the Islamic Republic used the incident to wage war on the Left opposition in general and the Mojahedin in particular." According to Kenneth Katzman, "there has been much speculation among academics and observers that these bombings may have actually been planned by senior IRP leaders, to rid themselves of rivals within the IRP."
Islamic Republic views
According to Tasnim, it is not possible that MEK to be fully responsible for the incident, and the bomb had been transmitted to Iran or built by military technicians in the country, with the help of Western and Israeli spy services. In other words, the United States and Israel, with the sophisticated technology of that day, designed the bomb and plan of operation then presented the bomb and plan to MEK for operating.
To commemorate the event several public places in Iran including major squares in Tehran and other cities are named “Hafte Tir”.
See also
References
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- Moin, Baqer, Khomeini, Thomas Dunne Books, (2001), p.243
- "Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations". www.state.gov. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
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- Kenneth Katzman (2001). "Iran: The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran". In Albert V. Benliot (ed.). Iran: Outlaw, Outcast, Or Normal Country?. Nova Publishers. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-56072-954-9.
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