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Mehdi Bazargan

1907 - 1995

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mehdi Bazargan is the 6,144th most popular politician (down from 5,057th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 100th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 6,144 out of 19,576. Before him are Piero Soderini, Tudhaliya III, Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Ishbi-Erra, and Albert II, Margrave of Meissen. After him are Alara of Nubia, Marcus Annius Verus, Emperor Go-Suzaku, Tokugawa Iesada, Miguel de la Madrid, and Didier Ratsiraka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 85. Before him are Albert Gore Sr., Pierre Mendès France, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, John G. Trump, Jan Patočka, and Marcel Bezençon. After him are Jean Hyppolite, Franz Jägerstätter, René Char, Antonín Puč, Altiero Spinelli, and Nicolaus von Below. Among people deceased in 1995, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 69. Before him are Rose Kennedy, Yves Congar, Masashi Watanabe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Priscilla Lane, and Nathan Rosen. After him are Heiner Müller, Jeremy Brett, John Brunner, Takeo Fukuda, Georges Canguilhem, and Lola Flores.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 182 out of 631. Before him are Apama (-400), Harpagus (-700), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Shaykh Tusi (995), and Shapour Bakhtiar (1914). After him are Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Al-Karaji (953), Ahmad ibn Rustah (null), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), and Barbara (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mehdi Bazargan ranks 100. Before him are Abbas Mirza (1789), Sultan Husayn (1668), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), Apama (-400), and Shapour Bakhtiar (1914). After him are Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Arsames (-550), Abdullah Mirza (1433), Sati Beg (1300), and Simko Shikak (1887).

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