Mohammad Javad Bahonar Biography

Birth of Mohammad Javad Bahona

The PMOI was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, formed by a group of Iranian college students as an Islamic political movement. The Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran was founded in 1965 by six former members of the Liberation or Freedom Movement of Iran, middle-class students at Tehran University, including Mohammad Hanifnejad, Saied Mohsen and Ali-Asghar Badizadegan

The PMOI was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, formed by a group of Iranian college students as an Islamic political movement. The Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran was founded in 1965 by six former members of the Liberation or Freedom Movement of Iran, middle-class students at Tehran University, including Mohammad Hanifnejad, Saied Mohsen and Ali-Asghar Badizadegan

The PMOIs first military activities, a bombing of the Tehran electrical works and unsuccessful airplane hijacking, were conducted in August 1971 in protest against the Pahlavis extravagant 2,500 year celebration of Irans monarchy

The PMOIs first military activities, a bombing of the Tehran electrical works and unsuccessful airplane hijacking, were conducted in August 1971 in protest against the Pahlavis extravagant 2,500 year celebration of Irans monarchy

The PMOIs first military activities, a bombing of the Tehran electrical works and unsuccessful airplane hijacking, were conducted in August 1971 in protest against the Pahlavis extravagant 2,500 year celebration of Irans monarchy

The PMOIs first military activities, a bombing of the Tehran electrical works and unsuccessful airplane hijacking, were conducted in August 1971 in protest against the Pahlavis extravagant 2,500 year celebration of Irans monarchy

The PMOIs first military activities, a bombing of the Tehran electrical works and unsuccessful airplane hijacking, were conducted in August 1971 in protest against the Pahlavis extravagant 2,500 year celebration of Irans monarchy

The PMOIs first military activities, a bombing of the Tehran electrical works and unsuccessful airplane hijacking, were conducted in August 1971 in protest against the Pahlavis extravagant 2,500 year celebration of Irans monarchy

Bahonar is associated with the Revolutionary Council and the formation of clerical political power

Bahonar is linked to the Revolutionary Council and the Islamic Republic Party

Bahonar helps organise revolutionary political activity around the Islamic Republic Party

Bahonar supports the clerical programme that leads to the Islamic Republic

Bahonar helps build clerical support for the Islamic Republic

Bahonar supports the Islamisation of politics after the revolution

Bahonar becomes a founder member of the Islamic Republic Party

Bahonar helps found the Islamic Republic Party and supports the revolutionary clerical programme

Bahonar is a founder member of the Islamic Republic Party

Bahonar supports the revolutionary clerical movement after the fall of the monarchy

Bahonar supports revolutionary religious politics after the fall of the Shah

Serves as Minister of Education before becoming prime minister under Mohammad Ali Rajai

Bahonar backs revolutionary cultural policy aimed at removing secular influence from universities

Bahonar becomes secretary general of the Islamic Republic Party after Mohammad Beheshti is assassinated

Bahonar rises to party leadership after Beheshti is killed in the Hafte Tir bombing

Bahonar becomes secretary general of the Islamic Republic Party after Beheshti's assassination

Bahonar becomes secretary general after Mohammad Beheshti is killed in the Islamic Republic Party bombing

Bahonar takes over Islamic Republic Party leadership after Beheshti is killed

Bahonar becomes the second prime minister of the Islamic Republic after the 1979 revolution

Bahonar serves as prime minister in the Islamic Republic government

Bahonar serves as prime minister and secretary general of the Islamic Republic Party

Bahonar combines senior government office with leadership of the Islamic Republic Party

Bahonar becomes prime minister and leads the government until his assassination later in August

Bahonar takes office as prime minister before being assassinated later that month

Bahonar becomes prime minister under President Mohammad Ali Rajai

Bahonar is appointed prime minister under President Mohammad Ali Rajai

Bahonar becomes prime minister under President Mohammad Ali Rajai

Bahonar is killed when a bomb explodes at the prime minister's office in Tehran

Bahonar is assassinated in the bombing of the prime minister's office

Bahonar is assassinated in the prime minister's office bombing

Death of Mohammad Javad Bahonar after the prime minister's office bombing

Death of Mohammad Javad Bahonar after the 30 August bombing in Tehran

Iranian authorities blame the Peoples Mojahedin of Iran for the bombing that kills Bahonar

The PMOI is blamed by Iranian authorities for the bombing that kills Bahonar