The Interim Government of Iran

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The Interim Government of Iran (1979-1980) was the first government established in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. This government was formed by Ayatollah Khomeini's order on February 4, 1979, while Shapour Bakhtiar (Shah's last Prime Minister) was still claiming power. Mehdi Bazargan was the interim Prime Minister of the interim government. He introduced his 7-member cabinet on November 14, 1979. This announcement came three days after the army's official statement announcing the army's (Bakhtiar's last hope) neutrality in conflicts between Khomeini's and Bakhtiar's supporters. Bakhitar resigned on the same day, February 11. This day is officially named as Islamic Revolution's Victory Day.

The Prime Minister and all members of his cabinet resigned en masse on November 6, 1979. This was immediately after the US embassy takeover by students on November 4. However, the government did not mention this incident as a reason for resignation. In his letter to Khomeini, Bazargan stated that "...repeated interferences, inconveniences, objections and disputes have made my colleagues and me unable to continue [meeting] our duties ...".

[edit] Members of the cabinet

Bazargan reshuffled his cabinet several times because of resignation of ministers that were unable to cope with parallel sources of power. In several cases a ministry was supervised by an acting Minister or Bazargan himself.

List of members of Bazargan's first cabinet was as follows:

1. Abbas Amir-Entezam, Deputy Prime Minister
2. Karim Sanjabi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
3. Dariush Forouhar, Minister of Labor
4. Mostafa Katirai, Minister of Housing and Urbanization
5. Abbas Taj, Minister of Energy
6. Hashem Sabbaghian, Interior minister
7. Kazem Sami, Minister of Social Welfare
8. Ahmad Sadr Haj-Seyyed-Javadi, Justice minister
9. Ali Akbar Moinfar, Advisory Minister for Organization of Planning and Budget, and minister of Petroleum
10. Yousef Taheri Ghazvini, Minister of Roads and Transportation

[edit] See also

• Provisional Government of Iran (1979–1980)
• Interim Government of Iran, 1981