TEHRAN – An assassination attempt was made against Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the current Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a mosque in south Tehran on June 27, 1981.

When Ayatollah Khamenei was presenting a speech in the Abouzar Mosque, a bomb, concealed in a tape recorder at a press conference, exploded beside him.

The terrorist attack took place four days after the ousting of Abolhassan Banisadr, the first president of Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.