Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Iranian scholar, Shia theologian and politician, the first, Iranian, cleric, Prime Minister. assassinated by the Mujahideen-e Khalq,
Hojatoleslam Hadi Ghaffari s a member of the central council of Imam assembly forces and the president of the Al-hadi Institute in Iran. He assassinated the ex-Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida during the trials by Sadeq Khalkhali on April 7, 1979.[1] He was also in charge of supervising Hezbollah of Iran.[2] [3].According to Dr Mir Ali Montazam, one-time first secretary at the Iranian embassy, Ghaffari, was nicknamed the "machinegun mullah" after shooting 60 of the former Shah's supporters..On April 7, 1979, Amir-Abbas Hoveida was transported to Qasr Prison. Quickly shuffled back in front of Khalkhali's tribunal, Hoveida heard the court's indictment at three in the afternoon. Behind locked doors, after final efforts at stalling Hoveida's execution ended in failure, the ex-Prime Minister was taken into the prison's yard. Before reaching the area designated for firing squad executions, Hadi Ghaffari from behind pulled out a pistol and shot Hoveida twice in the neck..,Tehran- Iran 1981