Mousa Kalantari ( fa, موسی کلانتری; born 1949 in

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— assassinated 28 June 1981 in

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) was the cabinet minister of transportation in the government of

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. He was the elder brother of

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. Kalantari was killed in a terrorist attack on 28 June 1981, when a bomb exploded during a political party conference (

Hafte tir bombing On 28 June 1981 (7 Tir 1360 in the Iranian calendar; fa, هفت تیر, ), a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-four leading offi ...

) with 73 other attendees.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalantari, Mosa People from Marand 1949 births 1981 deaths Assassinated Iranian politicians Government ministers of Iran Amirkabir University of Technology alumni Islamic Republican Party politicians

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