Khomeini's "son" is killed
It was 10:30 p.m. in Tehran, and Ayatullah Morteza Motahari, one of Iran's leading Islamic theologians, was leaving a home where he had been conferring with Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. Behind the holy man, out of the shadows, stepped two gunmen. Motahari never saw them. A single shot rang out, and he fell mortally wounded with a bullet through the back of his head. His killers fled.
It was not the first assassination of an important figure since the Shah's ouster three months ago. Two weeks earlier Major General Mohammed Vali Gharani, who was army chief of staff...
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