Mehdi Bazargan
Iranian politician and pro-democracy activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and Prime Minister of Iran's interim government.
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Mehdi Bazargan | |
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مهدی بازرگان | |
41th Prime Minister of Iran | |
In office 4 February 1979[lower-alpha 1] – 6 November 1979 | |
Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
Preceded by | Shapour Bakhtiar |
Succeeded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai (1980) |
Minister of Foreign Affairs Acting | |
In office 1 April 1979 – 12 April 1979 | |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Preceded by | Karim Sanjabi |
Succeeded by | Ebrahim Yazdi |
Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 | |
Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
Majority | 1,447,316 (68%) |
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Born | Mehdi Bazargan 1 September 1907 Tehran, Sublime State of Persia |
Died | 20 January 1995(1995-01-20) (aged 87) Zürich, Switzerland |
Resting place | Qom, Iran |
Nationality | Iranian |
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Other political affiliations | |
Spouse | Malak Tabatabayi |
Children | 5, including Abdolali |
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Allegiance | Iran |
Years of service | 1935–1937 |
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One of the leading figures of Iranian Revolution of 1979, he was appointed prime minister in February 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini, making him Iran's first prime minister after the revolution. He resigned his position in November of the same year, in protest at the US Embassy takeover and as an acknowledgement of his government's failure in preventing it.[5]
He was the head of the first engineering department of University of Tehran.