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Mehdi Bazargan

Bazargan in 1979 Mehdi Bazargan (; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government.

One of the leading figures of Iranian Revolution of 1979, he was appointed prime minister in February 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini, making him Iran's first prime minister after the revolution. He resigned his position in November of the same year, in protest at the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Iran 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The inevitable victory by Bazargan, Mehdi, Muhammad Yusof

    Published 1979