The World - News from May 18, 1986
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Unidentified armed men kidnaped former Iranian Prime Minister Medhi Bazargan, beat him and threatened to kill him before letting him go, sources in Tehran said. The armed men, suspected to be Revolutionary Guards, seized Bazargan and 11 other officials of his Iran Freedom Movement, Iran’s only legal opposition party, which has been critical of Prime Minister Hussein Moussavi. Bazargan, Iran’s first prime minister after the Islamic revolution, sent a message to President Ali Khamenei protesting the incident, the sources said.
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