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Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
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Shia fundamentalist group/political party in Iran
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Iranian politician (1881-1964)
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