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President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing. The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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President of Iran in 1981
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Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Iranian Islamic cleric and politician (1933–1981)
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Political party in Iran
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Day of the year
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