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    Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and Prime...
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    established in Iran after the Iranian Revolution. The regime was headed by Mehdi Bazargan, one of the members of the Freedom Movement of Iran, and formed on the...
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  • Iran Bazargan, Qazvin, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran Bazargan District, Iran Abolfazl Bazargan, Iranian activist and politician Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1995)...
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    minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage...
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  • the early 1950s during Mossadegh's time in office. However, in 1961, Mehdi Bazargan, Mahmud Taleghani, Yadollah Sahabi (all prominent liberals) broke away...
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    was appointed minister of education in the government of Mehdi Bazargan, and although Bazargan's cabinet resigned on 6 November 1979, he did not resign...
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    September 1979 greatly strengthened the Islamists' hand. According to Mehdi Bazargan, members of the council were as follows: Iran portal Politics portal...
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    liberals—the democratic, reformist Islamic Freedom Movement of Iran, headed by Mehdi Bazargan, and the more secular National Front. They were based in the urban middle...
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    Chamran was one of the senior members of the Freedom Movement led by Mehdi Bazargan in the 1960s. He was part of the radical external wing together with...
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    the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini installed Mehdi Bazargan as the Prime Minister of an iterim government, which served until November...
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  • the group's leader Mehdi Azar (1901–1994), Iranian physician and politician Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister of Iran in 1979 Mehdi Ben Barka (1920 – disappeared...
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    politician who served as deputy prime minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of...
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    (Bahman 22), Khomeini appointed his own competing interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan, demanding, "since I have appointed him, he must be obeyed." It was...
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    because the people approved me!" On 5 February Ayatollah Khomeini chose Mehdi Bazargan as Prime Minister of the interim government. On 8 February Iranian air...
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    October 24, 1979, and Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan approved it. This was also approved in December 1979 constitutional...
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    National Resistance Movement. This group included future prime ministers Mehdi Bazargan and Shapour Bakhtiar, and its aim was to reestablish democracy by campaigning...
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    Forouhar served as minister of labor in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. Forouhar and his wife, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, were overt...
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    Monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Preceded by Gholam Reza Azhari Succeeded by Mehdi Bazargan (Acting) Minister of Interior In office 16 January 1979 – 11 February...
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    in 2009. He was born on 14 August 1943 in Tehran. He is the son of Mehdi Bazargan, Iran's first prime minister following the Iranian Revolution in 1979...
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    that year, an interim government was established under Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan which sought to establish a nationalist Islamic democratic [citation...
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    York Times. Retrieved 13 March 2022. Godsel, Geoffrey (9 November 1979). "Bazargan resignation increases Iran risks to American hostages". The Deseret News...
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    severed, "to prevent any last-minute intercession on his behalf by Mehdi Bazargan, the provisional prime minister." By trying Hoveida, Khalkhali effectively...
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    to depose the provisional revolutionary government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, which they believed was plotting to normalize relations with the U...
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    minister of interior in the interim government led by Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. Later, he became a member of parliament from 1980 to 1984....
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    1988) was Iran's minister of health in the transitional government of Mehdi Bazargan and leader of The Liberation Movement of People of Iran (JAMA). Kazem...
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    October 24, 1979, and Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan approved it. The 1979 Constitution designated the Supreme Leader of...
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    Arafat with Iranian Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, days after Iranian Revolution...
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    provisional government fell shortly thereafter, when Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and his cabinet resigned. Although the new Iranian government stated...
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    Mohammad-Vali Gharani (1913–1979) – army general Mehdi Eraqi (1930–1979) – a founder of Fadayan-e Islam Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1995) – prime minister (1979) Aghabeyim...
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    German secret police, the Stasi. During studying, Tabatabaei met with Mehdi Bazargan and joined his party, Freedom Movement.[citation needed] He became a...
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