Mohammad Ali Rajai

Mohammad Ali Rajai

Mohammad Ali Rajai ( Persian محمدعلی رجائى Mohammad Alī Radschāʾī [ moɦæˈmːæd æˈliː ræʤɔːˈiː ], other spellings: Mohammad (-) Ali Radschāʾi and Mohammad (-) Ali Radjai ; born in 1933 in Qazvin ; died August 30, 1981 in Tehran ) was an Iranian politician and president.

Life

Mohammad Ali Rajai was born in Qazvin in 1933. He lost his father when he was four years old. He grew up in Qazvin with his mother and brother, who was ten years older than him. At the age of 13 he finished elementary school. Rajai left his hometown and went to Tehran to see his brother, who worked in the bazaar.

In 1951, Radschai signed up for a career as a sergeant in the Air Force . He began training as a sergeant . After three months of his training in the Air Force, he became a member of the fundamentalist secret society Fedayeen Islam . During this time, Rajai attended evening classes of the “Islamic Society” (Dschāme'e Eslāmi) in the Hedayat Mosque, where the Ayatollah Mahmud Taleghani taught.

Mohammad Ali Radschai successfully passed the examination to become a sergeant and, in addition to his service in the Air Force, attended an evening high school in order to catch up on his Abitur. In August 1953 he passed the Abitur examination. In 1954 he left the Air Force and went to Bidschar as an English teacher .

In 1956, Radschai went back to Tehran and began teaching at Tarbiat Moallem University . He completed his studies in 1959 with a teaching degree in mathematics. After graduating, Rajāʾi went to Khansar in Isfahan Province as a teacher .

In 1960, Rajai returned to Tehran to get married and start a family. From 1960 he worked as a teacher at several schools in Tehran and in 1961 he became a member of the Iranian Freedom Movement founded by Mehdi Bāzargān . In June 1963 he took part in the demonstrations against the White Revolution , was arrested, but was released 50 days later. During his detention he met Hodschatoleslam Mohammad Javad Bahonar . After their release from prison, Rajai and Bahonar joined the “Hayat-e Mo'talefeh Islami”. Rajāʾi directed the training of militiamen for “armed struggle”. Contact with the armed groups of the Palestinians fell within his area of ​​responsibility. Rajai sent the budding militiamen to Palestine, where they received appropriate military training in training camps. Rajai, Bahonar and the Ayatollah Beheschti were listed on the payroll of the Ministry of Education under Education Minister Farochru Parsa and received salaries as civil servants.

In 1971 Mohammad Ali Radschai traveled to France, Turkey and Syria in order to establish further contacts with militias. In 1974 he was arrested for his managerial work at the “Motalefeh Eslami”. He was only released again in 1977 in the course of the domestic liberalization initiated by Prime Minister Jamschid Amusegar as part of the policy of the "open political space".

After the Islamic Revolution , Rajai became Minister of Education in September 1979. While Rajā Radi was Minister of Education, Farochru Parsa, his predecessor as Minister of Education and the first woman in Iran to hold ministerial office, was executed.

Rajai's inauguration in 1981

On August 11, 1980, Rajai became Prime Minister on the proposal of President Abolhassan Banisadr . After the overthrow of Banisadr, Rajai was elected as the new president on July 24, 1981 with 88% of the votes cast (→ presidential election in July 1981 ). He was sworn in as president on August 3, 1981.

Bahman Nirumand described Rajai as "inconspicuous", an "unsuspecting, naive, ignorant, simple person, a subject of Khomeini ."

On August 30, 1981, Mohammad Ali Rajai fell victim to a bomb attack together with Prime Minister Bahonar .

See also

• History of Iran since 1979

Web links

Commons : Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi on tebyan.net (Persian)
• Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bahman Nirumand, Keywan Daddjou: With God for Power . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-498-04628-4 , p. 329 .
2. ↑ With God for power . S. 308 .