Mehdi Bazargan

Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan
مهدی بازرگان
	Bazargan in 1979
41st Prime Minister of Iran
	In office; 4 February 1979 – 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%)
Personal details
Born	Mehdi Bazargan; 1 September 1907; Tehran, Sublime State of Persia
Died	20 January 1995 (aged 87); Zürich, Switzerland
Resting place	Qom, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Freedom Movement of Iran (1961–1995); National Front (1949–1961); Iran Party (1941–1946);
Other political; affiliations	ADFSIN (1986–1990); Eponym Group (1980); ICDFHR (1977–1979);
Spouse	Malak Tabatabai
Children	5, including Abdolali
Alma mater	École Centrale Paris; Lycée Clemenceau;
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Years of service	1935–1937
	^ The office was disputed between him and Shapour Bakhtiar from 4 to 11 February 1979. ;

Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government.

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 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Iran 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.

^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 190–191. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
^ Afshari, Reza (2011), Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism, University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 358, ISBN 9780812201055
^ Bahman Bakhtiari (1996). Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. p. 69. ISBN 0813014611.
^ Chehabi, Houchang (1995). "A Knife Without a Blade". Between States: Interim Governments in Democratic Transitions. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-521-48498-5.
^ Cite error: The named reference deseret was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] The office was disputed between him and Shapour Bakhtiar from 4 to 11 February 1979.

[2] Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 190–191. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.

[3] Afshari, Reza (2011), Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism, University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 358, ISBN 9780812201055

[4] Bahman Bakhtiari (1996). Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. p. 69. ISBN 0813014611.

[5] Chehabi, Houchang (1995). "A Knife Without a Blade". Between States: Interim Governments in Democratic Transitions. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-521-48498-5.

[deseret-6] Cite error: The named reference deseret was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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