Mehdi Bazargan Prime minister
Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان; Azerbaijani: Mehdi Bazərgan; 1 September 1908 – 20 January 1995, born in Tehran, Persia(now Iran)) was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was the head of the first engineering department of University of Tehran. A well-respected religious intellectual, known for his honesty and expertise in the Islamic and secular sciences, he is credited with being one of the founders of the contemporary intellectual movement in Iran.
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Birth date | September 01, 1908 |
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Date of death | January 20, 1995 |
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office | (Acting) Minister of Foreign Affairs Member of Parliament of Iran |
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Prime minister
From | February 04, 1979 |
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To | April 12, 1979 |