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.

Personal facts

Mehdi Bazargan
Birth dateSeptember 01, 1908
Birth place
Iran , Tehran
Nationality
Iran
Religion
Shia Islam
Date of deathJanuary 20, 1995
Place of death
Switzerland , Zürich
Education
École Centrale Paris
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Politician

deputy
office
(Acting)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Member of Parliament of Iran
party
Freedom Movement of Iran
region
Tehran
successor

Prime minister

FromFebruary 04, 1979
ToApril 12, 1979

Mehdi Bazargan on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.bazargan.info/la_english/english.htm