Ayatollah Beheshti and the Islamic Republic

The Islamic Republic party is headed by the very capable but quite cunning Ayatollah Beheshti and it's in the same period that we see the election of Abuel Hassan al-Bani-Sad as the first president of the Islamic Republic. This carries on despite the invasion of Iran by Iraq in in 1980 and really sort of comes to a final kind of denouement in June of 1981 where we basically see this bloody repression of partisans of President Bani-Sad. Kona? Eskander talks about most of the important moments in the political consolidation of power between the different forces vying for a role in the new government.