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Although no group publicly admitted responsibility for the bombing, a Mujahedin leader told TIME last week that it was the work of his organization, the very group Raja'i and Bahonar were discussing as they were killed. Of the dozen factions that oppose Khomeini, the Mujahedin have emerged as the best organized and the most likely to bid for power in the event of the regime's collapse. Their leader, Massoud Rajavi, 34, is hardly known abroad-unlike Banisadr, whose escape to France was engineered by the Mujahedin. But with thousands of armed men at his command inside...
...Mujahedin flinch. On the day of the Raja'i and Bahonar funerals, Mujahedin gunmen assassinated two more ranking Khomeini supporters. One was Hojjatoleslam Seyed Nasser Banijamal, director of internal affairs at Tehran's Court for Combatting Sin. Three days later, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards fought an eight-hour gun battle with Mujahedin in Tehran's streets. According to the government's own reports, more than 100 similar shootouts with Mujahedin and other leftist guerrillas have erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border...
...have an interest in Iran as a buffer to Soviet expansion," an Administration official explains. "But at this point, all we can do is sit back and wait to see what happens." Although Moscow has consistently supported Khomeini, the Soviets are in a similar quandary. Pravda reported the Raja'i-Bahonar killings factually and tersely-a sign that the Kremlin is keeping its options open. The Palestine Liberation Organization is caught between its initial attraction to Khomeini, who has steadily supported the Palestinian cause, and the Mujahedin, whose secular views are closer to its own. Hani al-Hassan...
...Bombing That Killed Raja'i and Bahonar. It was the very natural conclusion of actions for which Khomeini is responsible. I recognize this response to the executions and torture as legitimate. There is no other solution...
...Khomeini is very weak. His people, who are responsible for the torture and executions, are falling down like the leaves of autumn. I don't think this story will continue too long: 90% of Khomeini's leadership is gone. The estimates of 1 million people at the [Raja'i and Bahonar] funeral are exaggerated; most journalists say there were not more than 100,000. I am not happy myself about the death of anyone, even my enemy, but we were informed by Iranian students that people were really happy and were congratulating...