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Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran (1979–1979); Prime Minister of Iran (1979–1979); Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly."},{"q":"Where did Mehdi Bazargan study?","a":"Mehdi Bazargan was educated at École Centrale Paris."}],"related":[{"name":"Ali Khamenei","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ali-khamenei"},{"name":"Hassan Rouhani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hassan-rouhani"},{"name":"Mohammad Khatami","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohammad-khatami"},{"name":"Masoud Pezeshkian","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/masoud-pezeshkian"},{"name":"Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/akbar-hashemi-rafsanjani"},{"name":"Mohammad-Ali Rajai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohammad-ali-rajai"},{"name":"Abolhassan Banisadr","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abolhassan-banisadr"},{"name":"Ahmad Qavam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ahmad-qavam"},{"name":"Vosugh od-Dowleh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vosugh-od-dowleh"},{"name":"Mohammad-Ali Ala ol-Saltaneh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohammad-ali-ala-ol-saltaneh"},{"name":"Hossein Ala'","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hossein-ala"},{"name":"Abolqasem Naser ol-Molk","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abolqasem-naser-ol-molk"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/mehdi-bazargan-03ff87a44a.jpg","width":500,"height":670,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_Bazargan_photographed_during_a_Television_program_-_1979.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mehdi Bazargan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Bazargan","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q382369","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382369","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: PM Bazargan photographed during a Television program - 1979.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_Bazargan_photographed_during_a_Television_program_-_1979.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mehdi Bazargan, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: PM Bazargan photographed during a Television program - 1979.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Mehdi Bazargan\". DigiNepal. Last updated 5 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mehdi-bazargan. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-05T07:59:07Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mehdi-bazargan","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mehdi-bazargan","ne":null}}