Mehdi Bazargan

Mehdi Bazargan (Persian مهدی بازرگان [ meɦdi ː ː bɔ zærgɔ ː n]; * September 1907; † 20 January 1995) was an Iranian politician and liberal Islamic thinkers. From April to November 1979 he was the prime minister of Iran.

Life

Bazargan was born in 1907 in a mercantile family. After his school education in Iran began under a government scholarship program in France at the prestigious École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures a degree in engineering. During the Second World War, he joined a volunteer in the French army and fought against Nazi Germany.

Back in Iran, he received a professorship at the University of Tehran. In the early 1950s he served as deputy prime minister during the tenure of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

Bazargan took Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, among others, in the early 1960s in protests against the reform policies of the Shah (see White Revolution ) part. In 1961 he founded together with other Taleghani and the Iranian freedom movement. Bazargan was also cofounder of the National Front and the Iranian society human rights in 1977. Due to these activities, he was imprisoned in the 1960s and 1970s several times for short periods.

When Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi left Iran in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini appointed Bazargan on February 5, 1979, Prime Minister of the transitional government. Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar The ruling was urged by militias from office and Bazargan took over for a few months into office. He put on 5 November 1979 due to the kidnapping of Tehran from his office, because in his view, radical organizations were undermining his government.

His decision to do so is damning out for yourself:

" After the revolution happened something completely unexpected - the clergy has us completely displaced and taken control of the country. His reign began at the very moment when the mullahs were supposed to be replaced by laymen. At this time, all parties Islamic orientation have also slept like the left, which was never really appealing to the masses and remained on the edge of reality. We civilians have allowed the takeover of the clergy by our inactivity. "

Bazargan served for some years the Iranian Parliament. 1985 rejected the Guardian from his candidacy for the presidential elections. Until his death he remained an opponent of the role of the clergy in politics, society and economy of Iran and therefore faced hostility from whose ranks exposed.