1. Sayyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti was an Iranian jurist, poetic philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after the Revolution.
20 Facts About Mohammad Beheshti
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Mohammad Beheshti served as the Secretary General of the Islamic Republic Party, and was the head of the Iranian judicial system.
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Mohammad Beheshti further served as Chairman of the Council of Islamic Revolution, and the Assembly of Experts.
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Mohammad Beheshti earned a PhD in philosophy, and was fluent in English, German and Arabic.
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On 28 June 1981, Mohammad Beheshti was assassinated in the Hafte tir bombing by the People's Mujahedin of Iran, along with more than 70 members of the Islamic Republic Party, including four cabinet ministers and 23 members of parliament.
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Mohammad Beheshti studied both at the University of Tehran and under Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei in Qom.
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Mohammad Beheshti joined Ayatollah Khomeini in Najaf, Iraq, where the latter was in exile.
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Mohammad Beheshti was planning to run for the presidency in the first presidential elections, but withdrew after Ayatollah Khomeini told a delegation of Rafsanjani and Khamenei that he preferred non-clerics as presidents, which led to the Islamic Republic party's endorsement of Jalaleddin Farsi and Hasan Habibi as candidate.
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On 28 June 1981, Mohammad Beheshti was killed in the Hafte tir bombing during a party conference.
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Mohammad Beheshti had an important role in writing the constitution of Iran, particularly the economic section.
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Mohammad Beheshti believed in cooperative companies in the field of economy and partnership and co-operation in lieu of competition in economic affairs.
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Mohammad Beheshti asserts that in such entities, legal rights belong to members rather than stock holders.
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Mohammad Beheshti raised some epistemological questions in Knowledge from the Quran's View Point.
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Mohammad Beheshti believed that knowledge no definition, and that no definition can be found.
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Mohammad Beheshti believed there are only four sources of knowledge: perception, introspection, reason and revelation.
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Mohammad Beheshti coupled an empiric attitude with foundationalism in his structure of knowledge.
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Mohammad Beheshti, opposed to modernism, believed that there is a strict relationship between individual and collective aspects of human being.
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Mohammad Beheshti emphasized on the theory of Fitarat in anthropology.
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Mohammad Beheshti believed the human soul had to be considered in the whole rather than in part.
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In other words, Mohammad Beheshti believes Islam has a realist slant in respect to humans as it considers humans as a mix of freedom of choice and responsibility.