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	Mehdi Bazargan Summary
		Mehdi Bazargan is probably best known as the first prime minister of revolutionary Iran, since Ayatollah Khomeini (1900–1989) gave him the job of premier of the provisional government soon after the victory of the revolutionary regime in 1979.
		Bazargan was appointed to the prime ministership by Ayatollah Khomeini on February 5, 1979 after the revolution forced the Shah to leave Iran.
		Bazargan was seen as one of the figureheads of the democratic and liberal revolutionaries and increasingly came into conflict with the religious clerics including the leader of revolution Ayatollah Khomeini.
	www.bookrags.com /Mehdi_Bazargan (823 words)

	History of Iran: Mehdi Bazargan
		Bazargan also participated with Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleqani and others in a reform movement in the early 1960s aimed at democratizing the Shi'ia clerical establishment.
		Bazargan was imprisoned several times during the 1960s and 1970s for his non-violent opposition to the Mohammad Reza Shah through groups such as the Liberation Movement of Iran, which he co-founded in 1961, and the Iranian Human Rights Association, which he also co-founded in 1977.
		Bazargan continued to serve in the Iranian parliament for several years, harassed by his radical opponents, then lived in a sort of political limbo until his death in early 1995.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/mbazargan/mehdi_bazargan.php (210 words)

	Mehdi Bazargan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Bazargan served as the first Iranian head of National Iranian Oil Company under command of (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Prime Minister (Click link for more info and facts about Mossadegh) Mossadegh.
		Bazargan was seen as one of the figureheads of the democrat and liberal revolutionaries and increasingly came into conflict with the religious clerics including the leader of revolution (Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)) Ayatollah Khomeini.
		Bazargan resigned with his (A cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display) cabinet on November 5, 1979, immediately after (Click link for more info and facts about US Embassy takeover and hostage-taking) US Embassy takeover and hostage-taking on November 4.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Me/Mehdi_Bazargan.htm (400 words)

	Mehdi Bazargan -- Mehdi Bazargan (مهدی ب... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bazargan was educated in thermodynamics and engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris.
		Bazargan was appointed to the prime ministership by Ayatollah Khomeini on February 5, 1979 after the revolution forced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavito leave Iran.
		Bazargan resigned with his cabinet on November 5, 1979, immediately after US Embassy takeover and hostage-taking on November 4.
	mehdi-bazargan.en.exsudo.org (311 words)

	EXTENDED PROFILES - IRAN
		Mehdi Bazargan became the first prime minister of the revolutionary regime in February 1979.
		Bazargan and his cabinet colleagues were eager for a return to normalcy and rapid reassertion of central authority.
		Bazargan, too, was critical of the courts' activities.
	wdbase.com /extended_profiles/iran/31 (1874 words)

	Mehdi Bazargan - Result for Mehdi Bazargan - Meaning of Mehdi Bazargan - Definition of Mehdi Bazargan - Dictionary of ...
		Bazargan was appointed to the prime ministership by Ayatollah Khomeini on February 5, 1979 after the revolution forced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to leave Iran.
		Bazargan resigned with his cabinet on November 5, 1979, immediately after Iran hostage crisis US Embassy takeover and hostage-taking on November 4.
		Bazargan was a member of first Majlis of Iran Islamic Parliament of Iran (''Majlis'').
	www.mauspfeil.net /Mehdi_Bazargan.html (412 words)

	Soft on Satan: Challenges for Iranian-U.S. Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chief among the negotiators was Mehdi Bazargan, selected as provisional prime minister by Imam Ruhollah Khomeini in early February 1979.
		Bazargan and his supporters sought to ease U.S. hostility toward the Iranian Revolution and to gain access to U.S. intelligence on internal and Soviet threats to the new Iranian regime.
		Bazargan and his followers resigned within days, citing the embassy takeover as the latest and most damaging of a series of radical activities designed to undermine the provisional government's authority.
	www.mepc.org /public_asp/journal_vol6/9806_kurzman.asp (4261 words)

	Iran - THE REVOLUTION
		Bazargan, however, headed a government that controlled neither the country nor even its own bureaucratic apparatus.
		Bazargan and his cabinet colleagues were eager for a return to normalcy and rapid reassertion of central authority.
		Bazargan had also attempted, but failed, to bring the revolutionary committees under his control.
	www.countrystudies.us /iran/23.htm (1841 words)

	FORTY MORE IFM MEMBERS AND ISLAMIT-NATIONALIST ARRESTED
		Mehdi Bazargan, the leader of the IFM are among the arrested.
		Bazargan, the IFM played a substantial role in the victory of the Islamic revolution due to its popularity among Iranian middle class and moderate religious.
		Bazargan as his first Prime minister, but at the same time he denounced the organisation as a "seditious Islamist" current.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2001/apr_2001/more_ifm_arrested_8401.htm (1025 words)

	::ENTESHAR::
		Mehdi Bazargan was born in 1907 in Tehran.
		Mehdi Bazargan was among the first group of Iranian Student who was sent to France to be a prominent Engineer.
		Nachdem Herr Bazargan in den Iran zurueckkehrte, lehrte er an der technischen Fakultaet der Teheraner Universitaet, wo er einige Zeit den Vorsitz hatte.
	www.entesharco.com /page-1.htm (1268 words)

	MSN Encarta - Iran
		In February 1979 Khomeini asked Mehdi Bazargan to form a provisional government.
		Its principal opponents were two nonclerical religious parties, the moderate Liberation Movement of Iran, to which Bazargan belonged, and the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MK), which espoused radical programs for the redistribution of wealth and tended to be anticlerical.
		Bazargan resigned in November 1979 in protest over the hostage crisis (for more information, see the Hostage Crisis and the Iran-Iraq War section of this article).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567300_13/Iran.html (2633 words)

	Iranian Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This early opposition was lead by Mehdi Bazargan and his Freedom Movement of Iran.
		Bazargan became Prime Minister, and the Freedom Movement worked to establish a liberal secular government.
		Feeling powerless and disagreeing with the direction the nation was moving, Bazargan resigned as Prime Minister in November.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_revolution (3354 words)

	Bazargan, Mehdi - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bazargan, Mehdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The moderate Bazargan faced opposition from leftists and fundamental Islamists and in November 1979 he resigned, following the hostage-taking of US diplomats in Tehran by radical Islamic students.
		During the regime of Shah Reza Pahlavi, from 1953, Bazargan became a leader of the opposition to the shah's authoritarian rule and was imprisoned several times.
		Bazargan opposed the 1980–88 war with Iraq and faced harassment from militants within the regime, but escaped arrest.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bazargan%2c+Mehdi (307 words)

	Iran, Japan Azadegan contract may end - Printer Friendly Page - Iran (General) - Iran Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Mehdi Bazargan, managing director of Petroleum Engineering and Development Co., told Kyodo the contract, which was signed in February 2004 by Japan's government-linked oil developer Inpex Corp., National Iranian Oil and its subsidiary, may be terminated in September as no major progress has been made.
		Bazargan admits the mine removal is the National Iranian Oil Co.'s responsibility under the terms of the development contract, but says: "I don't think the main obstacle is mine clearing or demining."
		The United States has been vocal in its opposition to the project, but Bazargan said that he did not think U.S. pressure on the Japanese government was causing delays in the work.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=7344 (369 words)

	Mehdi Bazargan at AllExperts
		In1992, Mehdi Bazargan expressed a new theological opinion on one of the most important issues that has been the concern of Muslim thinkers and interpreters of the Quran: the purpose of the mission of the prophets.
		He said that the only purpose of the prophetic mission was to inform people about God and the afterlife, and that religion is for securing the happiness of human beings in the next life.
		In the second period, which consists of the last 8 years of his life, Bazargan changed his mind and took the following opinion: the main mission of prophets was to inform people about God and the next life.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/me/mehdi_bazargan.htm (630 words)

	Iran–United States Hostage Crisis History \| ema_03_package.xml
		However, the government of the prime minister Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1994) continued to maintain a working relationship with the United States, procuring military equipment and receiving U.S. intelligence reports concerning Soviet and Iraqi activities in Iran.
		Unfortunately for Premier Bazargan, on that very day, he was meeting with the U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in Algiers and was lambasted in the Iranian press for it.
		Bazargan tried to secure the release of the hostages, even pleading with Khomeini for his support, to no avail.
	www.bookrags.com /history/iranunited-states-hostage-crisis-ema-03 (1077 words)

	Histroy of Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bazargan, in Khomeini's name, persuaded the oil workers to pump enough oil to ease domestic hardship, however, and some normalcy returned to the bazaar in the wake of Bakhtiar's appointment.
		In April 1985 Bazargan and forty members of the IFM and the National Front urged the UN secretary general to negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict.
		Bazargan was denounced from pulpits and was not allowed to run for president in the 1985 elections.
	www.farhangsara.com /history_iri.htm (9205 words)

	Mehdi Bazargan
		Born into a devout family of merchants, Mehdi Bazargan (1907-1995) was a French-trained engineer, a lay Islamic scholar, and a long-time pro-democracy activist.
		Bazargan was imprisoned several times during the 1960s and 1970s for his nonviolent opposition to the Shah through groups such as the Liberation Movement of Iran, which he cofounded in 1961, and the Iranian Human Rights Association, which he cofounded in 1977.
		When the Shah was forced out of Iran in 1979, Khomeyni appointed Bazargan as provisional prime minister, but he resigned within a year, complaining that radical clerics were undermining his government.
	persepolis.free.fr /iran/personalities/bazargan.html (176 words)

	Around the World; Drive to Oust Bazargan Said to Expand in Iran - New York Times
		A drive by Islamic hard-liners to oust former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan from Parliament includes a petition drive for the ouster for Mr.
		Bazargan, said in a telephone interview that the petition by supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared to be part of a campaign to have the Parliament, vote to expel Mr.
		Bazargan's Liberation Movement, said it was ''not unlikely'' that the group would be ousted.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E1D81239F932A25753C1A967948260 (125 words)

	Goodbye to "The End" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		There are numerous similarities for instance between Mohammad Khatami and Mehdi Bazargan, two cosmetic heads of state since the 1979 revolution.
		As Bazargan appeared in his sweet and avuncular style welcoming Iranians and the world into an era of peace and democracy based on a tolerant interpretation of Islam, the revolutionary henchmen were working against the clock pursuing their lethal policy of mass murder and planning the take over of foreign embassies.
		In spite of sharing many traits with Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Khatami today is facing a totally different set of circumstances.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=7700 (1306 words)

	Mehdi Bazargan - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		A pro- democracy activist, Bazargan came back from France and become the head of the first engineering department of Tehran University in the late 1940s.
		Bazargan was appointed to the prime ministership by Ayatollah Khomeini on February 5, 1979 after the revolution forced the Shah to leave Iran.
		Though it was considered to be a protest to the hostage-taking crisis, it was also clear that his liberal views and resistance to the clergy had already convinced him that he could not make the democratic changes he had planned.
	psychcentral.com /wiki/Mehdi_Bazargan (374 words)

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		Mr Bazargan drove to Qom with six of his ministers and offered his resignation, he withdrew it after the Ayatollah had undertaken to make an effort to ensure that the Government had greater control over the revolutionary committees.
		Mr Mehdi Bazargan, in a national television and radio broadcast, complained of a lack of cooperation and a lack of realism that could destroy the revolution.
		Mr Mehdi Bazargan, in a passionate speech on television, appealed to Ayatollah Khomeini to come to Tehran and take responsibility upon himself; for his part he was ready and anxious to resign.
	ivl.8m.com /Chronology1.htm (8247 words)

	History of Iran: Iran after the victory of 1979's Revolution
		The prime minister found he had to share power with the Revolutionary Council, which Ayatollah Khomeini had established in January 1979 and which initially was composed of clerics close to Ayatollah Khomeini, secular political leaders identified with Bazargan, and two representatives of the armed forces.
		In July 1979, Bazargan obtained Ayatollah Khomeini's approval for an arrangement he hoped would permit closer cooperation between the Revolutionary Council and the cabinet.
		Attempts by Bazargan to have the revolutionary courts placed under the judiciary and to secure protection for potential victims through amnesties issued by Ayatollah Khomeini also failed.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/islamic_revolution/revolution_and_iran_after1979_1.php (1933 words)

	Massenprozess gegen politische Oppositionsgruppe im Iran
		Die NAI wurde 1961 von Mehdi Bazargan gegründet, der 1979 nach dem Sturz des Schah-Regimes der erste Premierminister der provisorischen Regierung der islamischen Republik war, bevor er einige Monate später zum Rücktritt gezwungen wurde.
		Der Gründer der "Befreiungsbewegung" Mehdi Bazargan (1905-1995) war einer ihrer wichtigsten Vertreter.
		Aufgrund seiner Feindschaft gegenüber der Arbeiterklasse unterstützte Bazargan dann auch Khomeini, von dem er 1979 zu seinem ersten Premierminister gemacht wurde.
	www.wsws.org /de/2001/nov2001/iran-n17.shtml (1456 words)

	CSC,LLC. - Bull Street The Art of the Con.
		It was fairly clear that Bazargan was not in charge of anything and that a bunch of children were running the store.
		Moreover, during the later stages of Bazargan’s presidency, a war was going on that could have seen either of the two combatants swallowed up by the other.
		For his peace efforts, Bazargan had his offices broken into by the Hezbollahis, who shut down the party’s newspaper and made the remainder of Bazargan’s term in office totally untenable.
	www.chapmanspira.com /pov/Iran/iran.htm (13949 words)

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