Ebrahim Yazdi

Ebrahim Yazdi
Yazdi in 1979
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
In office 12 April 1979 – 12 November 1979
Prime Minister	Mehdi Bazargan
Preceded by	Karim Sanjabi
Succeeded by	Abolhassan Banisadr (acting)
Deputy Prime Minister of Iran for Revolutionary Affairs
In office 13 February 1979 – 12 April 1979
Prime Minister	Mehdi Bazargan
Succeeded by	Mostafa Chamran
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
Constituency	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority	1,128,304 (52.9%)
Personal details
Born	(1931-09-26)26 September 1931 Qazvin, Imperial State of Persia
Died	27 August 2017(2017-08-27) (aged 85) İzmir, Turkey
Citizenship	Iran United States (1971–1979)
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Freedom Movement of Iran (1961–2017) National Front (1953–61) Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists (1947–53)
Relatives	Mohammad Tavasoli (brother-in-law) Mehdi Noorbakhsh (son-in-law)
Alma mater	University of Tehran Baylor College of Medicine

Ebrahim Yazdi (Persian: ابراهیم یزدی; 26 September 1931 – 27 August 2017) was an Iranian politician, pharmacist, and diplomat who served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis. From 1995 until 2017, he headed the Freedom Movement of Iran. Yazdi was also a trained cancer researcher.^[1]