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Shapour Bakhtiar

1914 - 1991

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Shapour Bakhtiar (Persian: شاپور بختیار, ; 26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the words of the historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jeremiad he reminded the nation of the dangers of clerical despotism, and of how the fascism of the mullahs would be darker than any military junta." In 1991, he and his secretary were murdered in his home in Suresnes, France, by agents of the Islamic Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shapour Bakhtiar is the 6,118th most popular politician (down from 4,632nd in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Iran (down from 160th in 2019) and the 99th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 6,118 out of 19,576. Before him are Theodora, Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Carl Adolph Agardh, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and Labarna I. After him are Kondō Isami, Khendjer, Yusuf II, Almohad caliph, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Milan Babić, and Iveta Radičová.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 80. Before him are Lilli Palmer, Yakov Zeldovich, Mario Bava, Martin Gardner, Kurt Franz, and Gyula Cseszneky. After him are Larbi Benbarek, Asger Jorn, Taizo Kawamoto, Woody Strode, Edmund Conen, and Achille Compagnoni. Among people deceased in 1991, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 61. Before him are Princess Ileana of Romania, Ernst Krenek, Dead, Christian de Castries, Henri de Lubac, and William Heinesen. After him are Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Aladár Gerevich, Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, Boris Pugo, and Vilém Flusser.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 181 out of 631. Before him are Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), Apama (-400), Harpagus (-700), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), and Shaykh Tusi (995). After him are Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Al-Karaji (953), Ahmad ibn Rustah (null), and Forough Farrokhzad (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Shapour Bakhtiar ranks 99. Before him are Tiridates I of Armenia (null), Abbas Mirza (1789), Sultan Husayn (1668), 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), and Apama (-400). After him are Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Arsames (-550), Abdullah Mirza (1433), and Sati Beg (1300).

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