Shapour Bakhtiar

Shapour Bakhtiar
شاپور بختیار
Bakhtiar in 1978
40th Prime Minister of Iran
In office 6 January 1979 – 11 February 1979[a]
Monarch	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Preceded by	Gholam Reza Azhari
Succeeded by	Mehdi Bazargan (Acting)
Minister of Interior
In office 16 January 1979 – 11 February 1979
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Abbas Gharabaghi
Succeeded by	Ahmad Sayyed Javadi
Deputy Minister of Labor
In office 1 July 1952 – 9 April 1953
Monarch	Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi
Prime Minister	Mohammad Mossadegh
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, Sublime State of Persia
Died	6 August 1991(1991-08-06) (aged 77) Suresnes, France
Manner of death	Assassination
Resting place	Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	National Resistance Movement of Iran (1979–1991) Iran Party (1949–1979)
Other political affiliations	National Front (1949–1979)
Spouse(s)	Madeleine Shahintaj
Children	4
Alma mater	Faculty of Law of Paris
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	France
Branch/service	French Army
Years of service	1940–1941
Unit	30th Artillerie Regiment
Battles/wars	World War II
^ The office was disputed between him and Mehdi Bazargan from 4 to 11 February 1979.

Shapour Bakhtiar (Persian: شاپور بختیار, listen^ⓘ; 26 June 1914 – 6 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 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".^[1] In 1991, he and his secretary were murdered in his home in Suresnes, France, by agents of the Islamic Republic.