Mehdi Bazargan
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Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government. He was described as a progressive and modernist Muslim.
Bazargan in 1979
Bazargan in his youth
Bazargan's cabinet
Bazargan with Hashem Sabbaghian, Yasser Arafat and Yadollah Sahabi
Ruhollah Khomeini
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Ruhollah Mostafavi Khomeini was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, whi
Mehdi Bazargan
…as a progressive and modernist Muslim. 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…
Portrait of Ruhollah Khomeini, 1981
Khomeini's birthplace at Khomeyn
Khomeini as a student with his friends (second from right)
Khomeini in 1938