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Resignation of Mehdi Bazargan

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

2Records
1979Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1979

Mehdi Bazargan6 November 1979

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Bazargan and his cabinet resign in protest after the seizure of the US Embassy

Mehdi Bazargan6 November 1979

Tehran · Government / Government of Iran

Bazargan resigns after the seizure of the US Embassy and the weakening of the provisional government

Names involved

Mehdi Bazargan

Provenance

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