The 7th Tir Day tragedy On the 7th of Tir 1360, due to the explosion of a powerful bomb in the meeting hall of the Islamic Republic Party, Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti, the head of the Supreme Court, along with dozens of political and religious figures of the country, were martyred. This incident is considered among the terrorist actions of the People’s Mojahedin Khalq Organization – hypocrites – in the early years after the victory of the revolution. Shahid Beheshti, along with a group of representatives of the Islamic Council and government officials, including deputy ministers, were exchanging views on the country’s problems at the meeting of the central office of the Islamic Republic Party.
The incident on the 7th of July took place six days after the removal of Bani Sadr from the presidency and a month before he and Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the People’s Mojahedin Organization, fled to France. Three days before this incident, Mohammad Javad Qadiri, a member of the central cadre of the People’s Mojahedin Organization and the main designer of the Abu Dhar Mosque 1 explosion, had confidently informed his friends that “on the seventh day of the month” the job would be completed. 2. On the 6th of July, he had again emphasized to some of the arrested accused of the organization that the work of the Islamic system will be finished tomorrow, on the 7th of July 1360. 3
In the meeting on the 7th of July, after reciting verses from Kalamullah Majid and announcing the program, Martyr Beheshti began to speak. The discussion of the day was about inflation, but some members of the parliament asked to discuss the presidential election as well. 4 Shahid Beheshti also made a speech in this regard, and based on the recorded tape of his statements, the last words of Masharaliyeh in the moments before the explosion were as follows:
“… we should not allow the colonizers to play a game for us and the fate of our people. Let’s try to elect those who are committed to the school and don’t gamble with people’s fate, and…”5
The perpetrator of the 7th Tir explosion was a person named Mohammad Reza Kalahi, a student of the University of Science and Technology, who joined the People’s Mojahedin Organization after the victory of the revolution, and by maintaining this membership, he first became a guard of the Islamic Revolution Committee on Pastor Street, and then led the organization into the Republican Party. Islam found a way. He was promoted in the party and became responsible for invitations to conferences, round tables and meetings. At the same time, he was also responsible for the protection of the party.
He carried the bomb with his handbag into the meeting of the Islamic Republic of Iran Party located near the Sarcheshma intersection in Tehran and left the party building a few minutes before the explosion. After the explosion, he hid for a while in the house of a member of his organization and was finally transferred to Iraq through the western borders of the country. He married one of the members of the organization in Iraq. But in 1370 he was included in the list of “problematic” members of the organization, in 1372 he left the organization and in 1373 he left Iraq for Germany.
In addition to Ayatollah Beheshti, the head of the Supreme Court, 72 other people were martyred in the 7th of July tragedy, including 4 ministers, several deputy ministers, 27 parliament members and a group of members of the Islamic Republic Party.
Imam Khomeini, in a message published on this occasion, said, “These Kurdlans, claiming to fight for the people, took a group from the people who were active servants and friends of the people.” 6 Imams emphasized, “Heaven is the place where the oppressed live and the oppressed die, and it was a thorn in the eye of the enemies of Islam.”7
Footnotes:
1. Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei was injured in the right shoulder area during the explosion of the Abu Dhar Mosque, which occurred the day before the 7th of Tir tragedy, and the veins and nerves of his right hand were severed. To learn about the details of this incident, refer to the independent article titled “Explosion in Abu Dhar Mosque” on the website of the Institute of Political Studies and Research.
2. People’s Mojahedin Khalq Organization, Pedayi Ta Farjam, Institute of Political Studies and Research, vol. 2, p. 593.
3. The People’s Mojahedin Organization, ibid.
4. The meeting of the Islamic Republic Party was held 25 days before the presidential election. In this election, which was held on the second day of August 1360, five days before Bani Sadr’s escape, Mohammad Ali Rajaei was elected as the second Islamic president of Iran.
5. Days and Events, Payam Mahdi Publications, spring 1379, p. 184.
6. Imam’s book, vol. 15, p. 2.
7. Imam’s book, ibid., p. 3
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