Mehdi Bazargan

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Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان‎; Azerbaijani: Mehdi Bazərgan; 1 September 1908 – 20 January 1995 born in TabrizIran) 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.

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active years end date

1979-04-12, 1979-11-06, 1984-05-06

active years start date

1979-02-04, 1979-04-01, 1980-05-04

alma mater

École Centrale Paris

birth date

1908-09-01

birth place

Iran, Tehran

child

Abdolali Bazargan

death date

1995-01-20

death place

Switzerland, Zürich

deputy

Abbas Amir-Entezam

nationality

Iran

office

(Acting), Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of Parliament of Iran

order in office

(1st Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic), 75th Prime Minister of Iran

party

Freedom Movement of Iran

region

Tehran

religion

Shia Islam

successor

Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Ebrahim Yazdi