Mehdi Bazargan
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| 75th Prime Minister of Iran | |
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In office 4 February 1979 – 6 November 1979 |
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| Deputy |
Ebrahim Yazdi Mostafa Chamran Hashem Sabbaghian Abbas Amir-Entezam Sadeq Tabatabaei |
| Preceded by | Shapour Bakhtiar |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Acting |
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In office 1 April 1979 – 12 April 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Karim Sanjabi |
| Succeeded by | Ebrahim Yazdi |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
| Majority | 1,447,316 (67.8%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Mehdi Bazargan 1 September 1907 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 20 January 1995 (aged 87) Zurich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Iranian |
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| Spouse(s) | Malak Tabatabayi |
| Children | Zahra Abdolali Fataneh Fereshteh Mohammad Navid |
| Alma mater | École Centrale Paris |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
| Signature |  |
| Website | Official website |
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, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He resigned his position as prime minister in November 1979, in protest of the US Embassy takeover and as an acknowledgement of his government's failure in preventing it.
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.
Bazargan was born into an Azeri family in Tehran on 1 September 1907. His father, Hajj Abbasquoli Tabrizi (died 1954) was a self-made merchant and a religious activist in Bazaar guilds.
Bazargan was sent by the government to France to receive university education as a scholar of the Reza Shah scholarship fund. He studied thermodynamics and engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École Centrale Paris).
After his graduation, Bazargan voluntarily joined the French army and fought against Nazi Germany. Bazargan then came back from France and became the head of the first engineering department at Tehran University in the late 1940s. He was a deputy minister under Premier Mohammad Mossadeq in the 1950s. Bazargan served as the first Iranian head of the National Iranian Oil Company under the administration of Prime Minister Mossadegh.
Bazargan co-founded the Liberation Movement of Iran in 1961, a party similar in its program to Mossadegh's National Front. Although he accepted the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as the legitimate head of state, he was jailed several times on political grounds.
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