Tragedy of June 27 bombing overshadowed other events, president

Tehran, June 30, IRNA, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday evening that tragedy of terrorist bombing on June 27, 1981, overshadowed other events in the Islamic Republic.

He made the remarks in a meeting with family members of the Tir 7 bomb explosion in Tehran.

He expressed his condolences to the bereaved families over anniversary of martyrdom of Ayatollah Beheshti and his companions at the headquarters of former Islamic Republic Party in Tehran on June 27, 1981.

The then judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti and 72 other senior officials of the country, including a number of ministers and Majlis deputies, were martyred in a bomb explosion planted by the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members in 1981.

The Iranian president then underlined the need for following he path of martyrs.