Background
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar was born on 5 September 1933 in Kerman, Iran.
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Mohammad-Javad Bahonar was born on 5 September 1933 in Kerman, Iran.
He attended Masoumiyeh school of Kerman and then, Qom Seminary. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in theology from the University of Tehran.
He is the first Iranian cleric Prime Minister. Bahonar began his career as a faculty member at the university of Tehran, becoming professor of theology. He was imprisoned several for his anti-government activities and his study at ministry of education during the 1960s.
He jailed for eleven years from 1964 to 1975.
He was also appointed minister of education. Bahonar served as the minister of culture and Islamic guidance under Mohammad Ali Rajai"s prime ministry from March 1981 to August 1981, and continued efforts to purge Iranian universities of secular influences, in what became known as the Islamic Cultural Revolution.
When Rajai became president on 4 August 1981, he chose Bahonar as his prime minister. Assassination
Bahonar was assassinated after less than two months in these offices, along with Rajai and other party leaders, when a bomb exploded at his office in Tehran on 30 August 1981.
The assassin was identified as Massoud Keshmiri, an operative of The People"s Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the MKO, MEK and PMOI), who had infiltrated the Prime Ministry in the guise of a state security official
Following the revolution Bahonar became a founding member of the Islamic Republican party and an original member of the Council of Revolution of Iran. After the assassination of Mohammad Beheshti on 28 June 1981, he was appointed general secretary of the party where he was also a member of the central committee.