Mohammad Beheshti

Mohammad Beheshti
Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti
آیت الله سید محمد حسینی بهشتی‏
Chief Justice of Iran
In office
3 June 1979 – 28 June 1981
Appointed by Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by Vacant
Succeeded by Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
In office
1 November 1979 – 15 November 1979
Preceded by Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Succeeded by Ali Meshkini
Leader of IRP
In office
18 February 1979 – 28 June 1981
Deputy Hassan Ayat
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by New party
Succeeded by Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Personal details
Born October 24, 1928
Isfahan, Iran
Died June 28, 1981(1981-06-28) (aged 52)
Tehran, Iran
Nationality Iranian
Political party Islamic Republican Party
Children Ali-Reza and Mohammad-Reza Beheshti
Alma mater Tehran University
Religion Twelver Shi'a Islam

Ayatollah Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (Persian: محمد حسینی بهشتی), (October 24, 1928 - June 28, 1981) was an Iranian scholar, writer, jurist and one of the main architects of the constitution of the Islamic Republic in Iran. He was the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party, and the head of Iran's judicial system. He was assassinated together with more than seventy members of the Islamic Republic party on June 28, 1981.

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Biography

Beheshti was born in Isfahan and studied both at the University of Tehran and under Allameh Tabatabaei in Qom. He received

Between 1960 and 1965, he led the Islamic Center in Hamburg [3], where he was responsible for the spiritual leadership of religious Iranian students in Germany and Western Europe. In Hamburg, he also worked with Mohammad Khatami and was among his influences. Since the early 1960s, he was involved in activities against the monarchy and was arrested several times by the Shah's secret police, the SAVAK.

Revolution

Following the Islamic Revolution, he became one of the original members of the Council of Revolution of Iran and soon its chairman. In the first post-revolutionary Iranian parliament, he led the Islamic Republic party together with Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. (He never campaigned for the parliament though, as he was already the head of Iran's Supreme Judicial System). He was also planning to run for the presidency in the first presidential elections, but withdrew after Ayatollah Khomeini told a delegation of Rafsanjani and Khamenei that he preferred non-clerics as presidents, which led to the Islamic Republic party's endorsement of first Jalaleddin Farsi and then, inevitably, Abolhassan Banisadr.

Assassination

Beheshti died in terrorist attack on June 28, 1981, when a bomb exploded during a party conference (Hafte tir bombing). The Islamic Republic at first claimed the bomb was planted by the Tudeh Party, then by the People's Mujahedin of Iran organization. The assassin was identified, so the official version, as Mohammad Reza Kolahi, an operative of the People's Mujahedin of Iran.[1]

Ayatollah Khomeini was very moved by his death. During the excavations of the bodies of the bombing victims, Khomeini was walking calmly in the garden of his house. Regularly his trustees would update the Ayatollah with new information on the death toll, Khomeini would not show any physical reaction to this although he was moved. But when they told Khomeini about the possible death of Ayatollah Beheshti, Khomeini turned around put his hands on his back and showed signs of extreme affection.[2]

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Party political offices
Preceded by
New Party
Leader of the Islamic Republican Party
1979-1981
Succeeded by
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Legal offices
Preceded by
Vacant
Head of Judiciary System of Iran
1979-1981
Succeeded by
Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
Political offices
Preceded by
Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Speaker of Assembly of Experts
1979
Succeeded by
Ali Meshkini

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