Dr. Beheshti was the founder of student activism in several European and Western countries.
Beheshti was assigned to several responsibilities during those decisive years and in the first post revolutionary Iranian parliament; he led the Islamic Republic party.
Following the martyrdom of Martyr Ayatollah Dr. Sayyid Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti and his disciples, Imam Khomeini said Iran nation is proud of presenting such persons who devoted themselves in the way of Islam and Muslims.
“Iran nation lost 72 innocent people in this event and the number is the same as it was in karbala. Iran nation is proud of presenting such persons who devoted themselves in the way of Islam and Muslims. People's enemies martyred a group who had gathered for discussing about country’s policy…..”
Imam Khomeini made remarks more than four decades ago when Beheshti several of his colleagues lost their lives in the attack on June 28, 1981.
Imam had assigned Beheshti with drafting the constitution of the Islamic Republic even months before the emergence of the Revolution in 1979.