Bakhtiar, Shahpur

Bakhtiar, Shahpur

▪ prime minister of Iran
born 1914, Tehrān, Iran
died , Aug. 6, 1991, Suresnes, near Paris, France

      Iranian politician, the last prime minister (Jan. 4–Feb. 11, 1979) under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.

      Bakhtiar studied law at the Sorbonne in Paris and fought in the French army during World War II. After the war he returned to Iran, where he became a leading figure in the nationalist struggle led by Mohammad Mosaddeq's National Front, serving as deputy labour minister in Mosaddeq's short-lived government (1951–53). After Mohammad Reza (Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi) was forcibly returned to power as shah of Iran in 1953, Bakhtiar established a private law practice. In the following years he was imprisoned for opposition political activities and rose to deputy chief of the reorganized National Front.

      In January 1979 the shah, seeking to forestall a Islāmic fundamentalist revolution, named him prime minister. Bakhtiar accepted the position only on condition that the shah leave the country. He tried to implement moderate reforms, but, after the Islāmic fundamentalist Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in France on February 1, Bakhtiar's government and power quickly evaporated. He went into hiding and by April had reached France, where he established the exile National Movement of the Iranian Resistance. In 1991 Bakhtiar, who had escaped at least two previous assassination attempts, was found stabbed to death in his home in a Paris suburb.

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