Hassan Ayat, the mysterious politician

On June 28, 1359, the publication of the statement of Hassan Ayat, a member of parliament and the political secretary of the Islamic Republic Party, against the then president Abul Hassan Bani Sadr in the Islamic Revolution newspaper caused controversy. This text was the edited version of two tapes related to Ayat’s speech in a private gathering, in which he announced a plan against Bani Sadr, and the Islamic Revolution newspaper had published it under the title of Ayat’s conspiracy document against the government. In these words, Ayat said: “We have a plan for Bani Sadr that even Bani Sadr’s father cannot resist.”  T Hassan Ayat was killed by an unknown group (some say it was the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran) with 60 bullets in front of his house in the center of Tehran at 8 am on August 14, 1360.