Week of Sept. 14, 1981
When an unattended suitcase in a Tehran meeting room explodes, eight men lie dead, including Iranian President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar. Iran's antitheocratic mujahedin admit they are responsible, which temporarily weakens Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary regime.
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