Mehdi Bazargan (Persian: مهدی بازرگان; September 1, 1907 – January 20, 1995) was a devout Shiite Iranian-Azeri intellectual, academic, and the head of Iran’s interim government.

A pivotal figure in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Bazargan was appointed as the country’s first prime minister after the Revolution by ‘Ayatollah’ Khomeini in February 1979. Disillusioned by the increasingly radical direction of the revolution and Khomeini’s policies, he resigned from his position in November of the same year. Bazargan narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Khomeinist regime and spent his final years in Switzerland, where he passed away in 1995.

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