Government of Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1981)

The Government of Mohammad-Javad Bahonar was the second government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution. During that time, Mohammad-Ali Rajai was president and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar was prime minister.

Rajai's Presidency

On August 15, 1981, Rajai was elected as second president of Iran. He introduced Mohammad-Javad Bahonar as prime minister to parliament and parliament voted him. Rajai was the President of Iran for 15 days. He started the Iranian retirement program for individuals over the age of 70. On August 30, 1981, President Rajai held a meeting of Iran's Supreme Defense Council, along with Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar. Witnesses later stated that a trusted aide brought a briefcase into the conference room, setting it between the two leaders, then left. Another person opened the case, triggering a bomb that set the room ablaze and killed Rajai, Bahonar, and three others.[1] The assassin was identified as Massoud Kashmiri, an operative of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the MKO, MEK and PMOI), who had infiltrated the Prime Minister's office in the guise of a state security official.

Bahonar's Prime Ministership

When Rajai became President on August 4, 1981, he chose Bahonar as his prime minister.

After Mohammad Beheshti was assassinated on June 28, 1981, Bahonar became the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic party, but he didn't last long in that position, nor in the position of Prime Minister, as he 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. The assassin was identified as Massoud Kashmiri, an operative of The People's Mujahedin of Iran (also known as the MKO, MEK and PMOI), who had infiltrated the Prime Minister's office in the guise of a state security official.

Members of the cabinet

List of members of Bahonar's cabinet was as follows:

PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officeParty
Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar5 August 198130 August 1981IRP
Ministers
Agricultural Minister Mohammad Salamati17 August 19813 September 1981MIRO
Commerce Minister Habibollah Asgaroladi17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Post Minister Morteza Nabavi17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Islamic Guidance Minister Abdolmajid Moadikhah17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Defense Minister Mousa Namjoo17 August 19813 September 1981Military
Finance Minister Hossein Namazi17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Education Minister Ali Akbar Parvaresh17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Energy Minister Hassan Ghafourifard17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Foreign Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Health Minister Hadi Manafi17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Housing Minister Mohammad-Shahab Gonabadi17 August 19813 September 1981MIRO
Heavy Industries Minister Mostafa Hashemitaba17 August 19813 September 1981Nonpartisan
Interior Minister Kamal Nikravesh17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Justice Minister Mohammad Asghari17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Labour Minister Mohammad Mir-Mohammad Sadeghi17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Petroleum Minister Mohammad Gharazi17 August 19813 September 1981Nonpartisan
Roads Minister Ahmad Amri*5 August 19813 September 1981Nonpartisan
Culture Minister Mohammad-Ali Najafi17 August 19813 September 1981Nonpartisan
Ministers without portfolio
Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Taghi Banki17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
Executive Affairs Behzad Nabavi17 August 19813 September 1981MIRO
State Welfare Organization Mahmoud Rouhani17 August 19813 September 1981IRP
National Steel Company Hossein Mousaviani17 August 19813 September 1981IRP

See also

References
  1. Facts on File Yearbook 1981
Cabinet of Iran
Preceded by
Cabinet of Rajai		 Cabinet of Bahonar
1981		 Succeeded by
Cabinet of Mahdavi Kani
as Interim Cabinet
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