Khomeini dies during postwar transition

Ayatollah Khomeini established a commission to revise Iran’s constitution as the country entered its postwar political transition.

Iran signed an Arak refinery construction contract with a Japanese-Italian consortium. The proposed 150,000-barrel daily capacity was planned capacity, not operating output.

Fuel oil from Abadan was shipped through Mahshahr after a long wartime interruption. The shipment marked a practical step from refinery reconstruction toward renewed export activity.

Iran filed a case against the United States over the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655, pursuing international legal redress for the deaths.

An international expert meeting in Geneva addressed the exchange of Iranian and Iraqi prisoners. Its communiqué urged attention to captives still held after the ceasefire.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Ali Khamenei to succeed Khomeini. The change placed reconstruction under a new supreme leader.

An agreement was announced for Bulgaria to import Iranian gas through the Soviet Union. The arrangement concerned planned supply, not proof of completed annual deliveries.

Iran and the Soviet Union signed a long-term trade, economic and technical cooperation agreement in Moscow, providing a framework for the postwar development relationship.

MEES reported Iranian crude production above 2.9 million barrels daily in June. The entry dates the report, rather than inventing a day on which recovery first occurred.

Iranians voted in the presidential election in which Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was the leading candidate. This entry records polling, not a same-day final results announcement.