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Shapour Bakhtiar
Shapour Bakhtiar ( Shapour Bakhtiar (help·info)) (also Shapur Bakhtiar) (Persian:شاپور بختیارShāpūr Bakhtīār) (26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranian political scientist, writer and the last Prime Minister of Iran under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Early life
Bakhtiar was born on 26 June 1914 in southwestern Persia [Iran] into a family of Iranian tribal nobility: the family of the paramount chieftains of the then powerful Bakthiari tribe. His father was Mohammad Reza Khan (Sardar-e-Fateh), his mother Naz-Baygom, bothLori and Bakhtiaris. Bakhtiar's maternal grandfather, Najaf-Gholi Khan Samsam ol-Saltaneh (a.k.a. Saad ad-Daula), was appointed prime minister twice, in 1912 and 1918. Bakhtiar's mother died when he was seven years old. His father was executed by Reza Shah in 1934.
Education
He attended elementary school in Shahr-e Kord and then secondary school, first inIsfahan and later in Beirut, Lebanon, where he received his high school diploma from
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| Shapour Bakhtiar | |
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| 45th Prime Minister of Iran | |
In office 4 January 1979 – 11 February 1979[lower-alpha 1] | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Preceded by | Gholam Reza Azhari |
| Succeeded by | Mehdi Bazargan |
| Minister of Interior | |
In office 4 January 1979 – 11 February 1979 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Abbas Gharabaghi |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad Sayyed Javadi |
| Member of Regency Council | |
In office 13 January 1979 – 22 January 1979 | |
| Appointed by | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1914-06-26)26 June 1914 Shahrekord, Persia |
| Died | 6 August 1991(1991-08-06) (aged 77) Suresnes, France |
| Nationality | Iranian |
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| Other political affiliations | National Front(1949–1979) |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut Institute of Political Studies |
| • Shapour BakhtiarIranian politician (1914–1991) Shapour Bakhtiar (Persian: شاپور بختیار, listenⓘ; 26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranianpolitician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[1] In the words of historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jeremiad he reminded the nation of the dangers of clerical despotism, and of how the fascism of the mullahs would be darker than any military junta".[2] In 1991, he and his secretary were murdered in his home in Suresnes, France, by agents of the Islamic Republic. Early life[edit]Bakhtiar was born on 26 June 1914 in southwestern Iran into a family of Iranian tribal nobility, the family of the paramount chieftains of the then powerful Bakhtiari tribe. His father was Mohammad Reza Khan (Sardar-e-Fateh).[3] His mother was Naz-Baygom, and both of his parents were Lurs and Bakhtiaris. Bakhtiar's maternal grandfather | |