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.