(1905–1995), prime minister of Iran. 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...

Mehdi Bazargan (مهدی بازرگان In Persian) (September, 1907? - January 20, 1995) (also spelled Mahdi Bazargan) was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, virtually Iran's...

Mehdi Bazargan, 87, who served as Iran's first prime minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution, died Jan. 20 at a hospital in Bern, Switzerland. He had a heart ailment. In February 1979, he was appointed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to head the provisional...

Adversarial abroad, Iran's new president is being buffeted at home "A KNIFE without a blade" is how Mehdi Bazargan, who headed Iran's first revolutionary government, described himself in 1979, and his words may strike a disagreeable chord with the new president, Mahmoud...