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Jun 15, 2024 · Mehdi Bazargan (1907-1995) was Mossadegh’s Deputy Prime Minister and part of the National Front. He can be seen as Mossadegh’s successor because his opposition to the Shah was rooted in secularism and demands for democratic reforms.
6 days ago · Mehdi Bazargan became the first prime minister of the revolutionary regime in February 1979. Bazargan, however, headed a government that controlled neither the country nor even its own bureaucratic apparatus.
2 days ago · Moderates such as provisional Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and the republic’s first president, Abolhasan Bani-Sadr, who opposed holding the hostages, were gradually forced from power by conservatives within the government who questioned their revolutionary zeal.
1 day ago · Politics of Iran. Presidential elections were held in Iran on 18 June 2021, the thirteenth since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Ebrahim Raisi, the then Chief Justice of Iran, was declared the winner in a highly controversial election. The election began with the mass disqualification of popular candidates by the Guardian ...
Jun 25, 2024 · In October 1979 the U.S. State Department was informed that the deposed Iranian monarch required medical treatment that his aides claimed was available only in the United States; U.S. authorities, in turn, informed the Iranian prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan, of the shah’s impending arrival on American soil. Bazargan, in light of the February ...
- The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis that began in November 1979 when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of the...
- The Iran hostage crisis ended after negotiations held in 1980 and early 1981, with Algerian diplomats acting as intermediaries. Iran’s demands cent...
- On November 17, 1979, about two weeks after the Iran hostage crisis began, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 hostages, all wome...
- Jimmy Carter was U.S. president when the Iran hostage crisis began in 1979, although the final resolution to the crisis—the release of hostages—occ...
3 days ago · On 11 February (Bahman 22), Khomeini appointed his own competing interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan, demanding, "since I have appointed him, he must be obeyed." It was "God's government," he warned, disobedience against him or Bazargan was considered a "revolt against God," [93] and "revolt against God is Blasphemy".
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4 days ago · On 5 February at his headquarters in the Refah School in southern Tehran, he declared a provisional revolutionary government, appointed opposition leader Mehdi Bazargan (from the religious-nationalist Freedom Movement, affiliated with the National Front) as his own prime minister, and commanded Iranians to obey Bazargan as a religious duty:
