Revolutionary official in key Iranian city killed

By WITH ANALYSIS FROM MONITOR CORRESPONDENTS AROUND THE WORLD; EDITED BY RUTH WALKER

January 7, 1980

Tehran, Iran

The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Committees in the central Iranian city of Isfahan was assassinated in a hail of gunfire early Sunday, the official Pars News Agency reported. The killing of Amir Abbas Bahreinian, an engineer, followed several weeks of unrest in Isfahan over the committees.