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    Shapour Bakhtiar (Persian: شاپور بختیار, listen; 26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran...
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    The government of Shapour Bakhtiar is the last government during the Pahlavi dynasty that ended with the Islamic Revolution. The head of this 37-day government...
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    to Iran, he graduated from Tehran's Military Academy. His cousin, Shapour Bakhtiar, and he went together to both Beirut and Paris for higher education...
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    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. SAVAK operated from 1957 until prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar ordered its dissolution during the climax of the 1979 Iranian Revolution...
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    Iranian monarch, leaving behind his duties to Iran's Regency Council and Shapour Bakhtiar, the opposition-based Iranian prime minister. On 1 February 1979, Khomeini...
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    Movement. This group included future prime ministers Mehdi Bazargan and Shapour Bakhtiar, and its aim was to reestablish democracy by campaigning for free and...
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    February, Bazargan and Shapour Bakhtiar, the Shah's last Prime Minister, both claimed to be the legitimate prime minister; Bakhtiar fled on 11 February....
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    Iran, 1997. In Persian. Bakhtiari language summary Shapour Bakhtiar. Memoirs of Shapour Bakhtiar. Habib Ladjevardi, ed. Harvard University Press, Cambridge...
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  • of oropharyngeal cancer in 2005. Bakhtiar has a younger brother and younger sister. Shapour Bakhtiar is Rudi Bakhtiar's father's uncle, the last prime minister...
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  • Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, contributing financial support and providing his contacts and authority. Bakhtiar's liaison with the conspirators...
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  • Persian: نهضت مقاومت ملی ایران) is a political organization founded by Shapour Bakhtiar in 1979. This organization has several publications and two radio stations...
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    OPEC siege and later participated in a failed attempt to assassinate Shapour Bakhtiar, for which he spent several years in jail. Al-Naqqash was born into...
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    Revolution. It led to the collapse of the provisional government of Shapour Bakhtiar and the final overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi...
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    In 1979, after the deposition of the government of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in February of that year, an interim government was established under...
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    1979 – 6 November 1979 Appointed by Ruhollah Khomeini Preceded by Shapour Bakhtiar Succeeded by Mohammad-Ali Rajai (1980) Minister of Foreign Affairs...
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    the civilian government the Shah left behind led by Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar. However, after much strife on the streets of Tehran and elsewhere...
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    scenes in order to undermine the Shah's Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar: [He] praised Bakhtiar's courage to his face, but behind his back, told Washington...
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    was succeeded by Abbas Gharabaghi as the chief of the army staff. Shapour Bakhtiar succeeded Azhari as prime minister. On 18 February 1979 Azhari was...
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    Prime minister of Iran in 1965 and remained in office until 1977. Shapour Bakhtiar was the last Prime Minister of the Pahlavi era. After the Iranian Revolution...
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    officer during the Pahlavi-era and was the last Minister of Defense in Shapour Bakhtiar's government (1978 — 1979). Shafaghat was the last governor of East...
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  • Harvard University Press, 2004. Ladjevardi, Habib (editor), Memoirs of Shapour Bakhtiar, Harvard University Press, 1996. Legum, Colin, et al., eds. Middle...
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    Because of this, Sadighi left the scene and the Shah instead appointed Shapour Bakhtiar (one of the other leaders of the National Front) as Prime Minister...
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  • relatives, such as the late Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar and General Teymour Bakhtiar (two of his great-uncles), as well as the second wife...
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    duties to a regency council and an opposition-based prime minister, Shapour Bakhtiar. On Thursday, 1 February 1979, Ruhollah Khomeini was invited back to...
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  • Bakhtiar, Iranian-American newswoman Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak...
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    influence. Khomeini adamantly opposed the provisional government of Shapour Bakhtiar, promising "I shall kick their teeth in. I appoint the government."...
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    with Moghaddam. The Shah, aware of Amjadi's close association with Teymur Bakhtiar, agreed to Fardoust's suggestion. Moghaddam served as the director of the...
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    Iran were not immune. A decade later, another former Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, was assassinated in Paris, one of at least 63 Iranians abroad killed...
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  • retrieved April 3, 2023 "'A Darker Horizon': The Assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar". FRONTLINE – Tehran Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2023. "Iran plotted...
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  • Some notable victims are Prime Ministers Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Shapour Bakhtiar, Amir-Abbas Hoveida, Abdolhossein Hazhir and Haj Ali Razmara; President...
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