Ebrahim Yazdi

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Ebrahim Yazdi (ابراهیم یزدی; born 1931 in Qazvin) is the Secretary General of the Freedom Movement Party in Iran, which has been declared illegal by some Iranian officials.

Yazdi was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until November 6, 1979, when the cabinet's mass resignation in the aftermath of Ayatollah Khomeini's support of the hostage-taking students in Iran hostage crisis was accepted by Khomeini.

He was also the Revolutionary Court's special prosecutor following the revolution of 1979 which led to the execution of some of the Shah's regime Generals such as Gen. Nematollah Nasiri (Governor of Tehran) and General Jahanbani (Deputy Commander of IIAF Training Center). Yazdi maintains that he advocated the idea of Islamic Revolutionary Court to avoid the execution the Shah's regime generals without any trial.

On March 8 Freedom Movement Party of Iran announced his nomination for Iranian presidential election, 2005.[1]