Seyed Javad Zabihi who was killed after the revolution


In early March 1979, Khomeini announced, “do not use this term, ‘democratic.’ That is the Western style,” giving pro-democracy liberals (and later leftists) a taste of disappointments to come. In succession the National Democratic Front was banned in August 1979, the provisional government was disempowered in November, the Muslim People’s Republican Party was banned in January 1980, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran guerrillas came under attack in February 1980, a purge of universities started in March 1980, and the liberal Islamist President Abolhassan Banisadr was impeached in June 1981.