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5 unusual facts about Shapour Bakhtiar


Gholam Hossein Sadighi

Because of this, Sadighi left the scene and the Shah instead appointed Dr. Shapour Bakhtiar (one of the leaders of the National Front (Iran)) as prime Minister of Iran.

Mahshid Amirshahi

Her article in support of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Premier of Iran prior to the installation of the Islamic Republic and a loyal follower of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, published in daily newspaper Ayandegan was unique in its genre.

Shapour Bakhtiar

Later he volunteered for the French army and fought in the Orleans battalion and in the French Resistance against the occupation by Germany when living in Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem.

On 6 August 1991, Bakhtiar was murdered along with his secretary, Soroush Katibeh, by three assassins in his home in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes.

This happened only two days after Tehran freed Clotilde Reiss, a French student accused of spying by the Islamic regime.



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