Mostafa Chamran
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Mostafa Chamran Savehi was an Iranian scientist, politician, and guerrilla, best known for serving as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran.
Chamran c. 1970s
Ebrahim Yazdi
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Ebrahim Yazdi was an Iranian revolutionary, political dissident, scientist, and diplomat. He served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan
Mostafa Chamran
…a pro-democratic, anti-Shah political organization led by Mehdi Bazargan. He belonged to the party's left-wing religious revolutionary bloc alongside Ebrahim Yazdi, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and Ali Shariati, all of whom had studied at Western universities. Chamran went to Cuba to attend a military camp. In December 1963…
Yazdi in 1979
Yazdi as part of Interim Government of Iran
Yazdi (left) and lieutenant general Mehdi Rahimi (right) in a press conference in February 1979. Rahimi was executed on 16 February.
Ebrahim Yazdi in his last Norouz in 2017