Prime Minister of Iran

After the amendment of the Constitution of Iran in 1989, the station of Prime Minister of Iran does not exist any more, but the Iran had many Prime Ministers since the first constitution at the end of the era Qajar E, when the country was known internationally under the name of Perse.

Prime Ministers for the Qajare time

At the time Qajare, the Prime Ministers carried various titles. The station itself was especially known under the name of ataabak or ataabak-e a' zam (large ataabak ), or sometimes sadr-e a' zam (first) at the beginning, then became ra' is ol-vozaraa (Chief of the ministers). The title of nakhost to vazir (Prime Minister) was seldom used. The Prime Minister was sometimes called by his honorary title hazrat-e ashraf .

Prime Ministers for the Pahlavi time

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Prime Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini installed Mehdi Bazargan at the post of Prime Minister in the provisional government, station to which there remained until November 1979. The government resigned during the crisis of the hostages, but mentioned that it was not the only reason, and that the decision to resign in mass had been just made a day before the catch of the embassy of the the United States by Iranian students.

The station remained unoccupied until Abolhassan Banisadr becomes president in January 1980 and chooses Mohammad Ali Rajai like Prime Minister, mainly because of pressures imposed on the deputies of the Majles, particularly those close to the Parti the Islamic Republic. Rajai was used for the station until its dismissal in June 1981, then he was elected president during the elections of the July 24th 1981. Rajai chose Mohammad Javad Bahonar like Prime Minister, but they were victims of attack to the explosion together in the office of the Prime Minister a few weeks after only, the August 30th 1981.

When Ali Khamenei became president with the elections of October 1981, it initially introduced the conservative Ali Akbar Velayati to the Majles to take the post of Prime Minister, but Velayati was refused at this station by the majority then on the left of the Parliament, majority which then imposed their own candidate on Khamenei, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. It is finally the intervention of the supreme guide, the Ayatollah Khomeini, who advised with the president to accept Mousavi.

Mousavi was used for this station until in 1989, practically throughout all Guerre Iran-Iraq when the constitution was amended, after the death of Khomeini, in order to make disappear the station and to divide its responsibilities between the president and the station lately created from first vice-president.

List Iranian Prime Ministers

See List of the Prime Ministers of Iran

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