Iran, 1982 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 27 June 1982, during the continued consolidation of the Islamic Republic and the aftermath of the Qotbzadeh affair. Through the first half of 1982 the capital experienced a near-civil-war atmosphere with repeated coup attempts, and the regime pressed on with purging counter-revolutionary military officers even as the proceedings against Ghotbzadeh and the implicated Grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari continued toward the September executions. Late June 1982 was also the turning point when Iran, having by early 1982 regained almost all the territory lost to Iraq's 1980 invasion, shifted to the offensive and prepared to carry the Iran-Iraq war into Iraqi territory, a decision that reinforced the leadership's tendency to encourage military mobilization and to suppress internal dissent.
The 27 June 1982 coding sits in this period of continued anti-Khomeini military plotting and purges tied to the Qotbzadeh affair fallout, as Khomeini's forces moved through 1982-1983 to crush the last rival factions and consolidate power.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
63006271982
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Khomeini consolidated power by 1982-1983, crushing rival factions and the officer plots.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Chicago Tribune
New York Times
South China Morning Post
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