Bahonar

Mohammad Javad Bahonar was an Iranian cleric, educator and politician from Kerman. He studied literature and education before completing a doctorate in theology at Tehran University. Before the 1979 Revolution, he took part in opposition organising against the monarchy.

After the revolution, Bahonar served on the Revolutionary Council and the Assembly of Experts that drafted the constitution. He represented Kerman in Parliament and became education minister in 1981. Following Mohammad Beheshti's death, he led the Islamic Republican Party. President Mohammad Ali Rajai then nominated him as prime minister, and Parliament approved the appointment in August 1981. A bomb exploded in the prime minister's office on 30 August, killing both men. Bahonar's premiership therefore lasted less than one month. His brief tenure belongs to the violent consolidation of Iran's post-revolutionary state rather than to the country's current government.