Interim Government of Iran (1979)

Provisional Revolutionary and Islamic Government of Iran
Provisional Revolutionary and Islamic Government of Iran
Interim Cabinet of Iran
	Mehdi Bazargan and his cabinet in 1979
Date formed	4 February 1979
Date dissolved	6 November 1979
People and organisations
Head of state	Ruhollah Khomeini
Head of government	Mehdi Bazargan
Deputy head of government	None
Chairman of Council of the Islamic Revolution	Morteza Motahhari; Mahmoud Taleghani; Mohammad Beheshti
No. of ministers	18
Ministers removed	7
Total no. of members	27
Member party	Freedom Movement; National Front (Iran Party, Party of the Iranian People, Nation Party); JAMA;
History
Election	None
Legislature term	None
Predecessor	Government of Shapour Bakhtiar
Successor	Interim Government of Iran (1979–80)

The Interim Government of Iran (Persian: دولت موقت ايران, romanized: Dowlat-e Movaqat-e Irân) was the first government established in Iran after the Iranian Revolution. It was formed by the order of Ruhollah Khomeini on 4 February 1979, and headed by Mehdi Bazargan. For a week, both Bazargan and Shapour Bakhtiar, the Shah's last appointed prime minister, claimed to be the legitimate leader of the Iranian government; the dispute ended when Bakhtiar fled to France on 11 February 1979. Bazargan then introduced a seven-member cabinet on 14 February, with Ebrahim Yazdi named foreign minister.

The constitution of the newly-formed Islamic Republic of Iran was adopted by referendum on 24 October 1979, with plans to encode it on 3 December 1979. Before that could happen, however, the Interim Government resigned en masse on 6 November, just two days after the takeover of the American embassy. As a result, the Council of the Islamic Revolution took over. It formed the second Interim Government of Iran (1979–80), which led the country until the establishment of the first Islamic Consultative Assembly on 12 August 1980. Bazargan was elected to the Assembly, representing the Tehran district.