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Interim Government

Iran · Government / Government of Iran. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1979–1981Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1979

Mehdi Bazargan4 February 1979

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Khomeini appoints Bazargan as prime minister of the provisional revolutionary government

Ebrahim Yazdi4 February 1979

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Yazdi joins Bazargan's provisional government and becomes a senior foreign policy figure

Mehdi Bazargan5 February 1979

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Khomeini appoints Bazargan as interim prime minister and calls on Iranians to support him

1981

Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani2 September 1981

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Mahdavi-Kani becomes interim prime minister after the deaths of Rajai and Bahonar

Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani2 September 1981

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Mahdavi-Kani is appointed interim prime minister after the deaths of Rajai and Bahonar

Names involved

Ebrahim YazdiMehdi BazarganMohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani

Provenance

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