Prime Minister of Iran

The **Prime Minister of Iran** was a political job in Iran (Persia) that had existed many times between the Qajar era until the end of the Pahlavi dynasty. It also was active from 1979 to 1989 following the Iranian Revolution, but was abolished in 1989.

## List

- Political party key

|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|colspan="3"|Term of office|rowspan="2"|Political party|rowspan="2"|Head of State|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="9" bgcolor="lightgrey"|• **Sublime State of Persia** (1907–1925) •|||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Nasrullah Moshir al-Dowleh|1 August 1906|7 March 1907||rowspan=2|Independent||||
||Soltan-Ali Vazir-e Afkham|17 March 1907|29 April 1907||Independent|||||||
||Ali-Asghar Khan Atabak|4 May 1907|31 August 1907||Independent|||||||
||Ahmad Moshir al-Saltaneh|16 September 1907|27 October 1907||Independent|||||||
||Abolqasem Naser al-Molk|27 October 1907|21 December 1907||Independent|||||||
||Hossein-Qoli Nezam al-Saltaneh Mafi|21 December 1907|21 May 1908||Independent|||||||
||Ahmad Moshir al-Saltaneh|7 June 1908|29 April 1909||Independent|||||||
||Kamran Mirza Nayeb al-Saltaneh|29 April 1909|2 May 1909||Independent|||||||
||Javad Sa'd al-Dowleh|8 May 1909|13 July 1909||Independent|||||||
|colspan=3|**Interim Cabinet without Prime Minister** کابینه موقت بدون نخست وزیر|colspan=1|17 July 1909|30 September 1909|colspan=1|colspan=1| –|||||||
||Mohammad-Vali Khan Tonekaboni|30 September 1909|25 July 1910||Moderate Socialists|||||||
||Hassan Mostowfi al-Mamalek|25 July 1910|12 March 1911||Democrats|||||||
||Mohammad-Vali Khan Tonekaboni|12 March 1911|26 July 1911||Moderate Socialists|||||||
||Najaf-Qoli Samsam al-Saltaneh|26 July 1911|1913||Moderate Socialists|||||||
||Mohammad-Ali Ala al-Saltaneh|18 January 1913|16 August 1913||Independent|||||||
||Hassan Mostowfi al-Mamalek|17 August 1913|14 March 1915||Democrats|||||||
||Hassan Pirnia|14 March 1915|1 May 1915||Moderate Socialists|||||||
||Abdol Majid Mirza|1 May 1915|18 August 1915||Independent|||||||
||Hassan Mostowfi al-Mamalek|18 August 1915|24 December 1915||Democrats|||||||
||Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma|24 December 1915|29 February 1916||Moderate Socialists|||||||
||Mohammad-Vali Khan Tonekaboni|5 March 1916|29 August 1916||Moderate Socialists|||||||
||Hassan Vosugh al-Dowleh|29 August 1916|5 June 1917||Democrats|||||||
||Mohammad-Ali Ala al-Saltaneh|5 June 1917|21 November 1917||Independent|||||||
||Abdol Majid Mirza|21 November 1917|16 January 1918||Independent|||||||
||Hassan Mostowfi al-Mamalek|16 January 1918|1 May 1918||Democrats|||||||
||Najaf-Qoli Samsam al-Saltaneh|1 May 1918|8 August 1918||Moderate Socialists|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Hassan Vosugh al-Dowleh|rowspan=2|8 August 1918|rowspan=2|3 July 1920|rowspan=2||Democrats||
|Independent||||||||||||
||Hassan Pirnia|3 July 1920|27 October 1920||Independent|||||||
||Fathollah Khan Akbar|27 October 1920|22 February 1921||Independent|||||||
||Zia'eddin Tabatabaee|24 February 1921|4 June 1921||Independent|||||||
||Qavām os-Saltaneh|4 June 1921|21 January 1922||Reformers' Party|||||||
||Hassan Pirnia|21 January 1922|22 June 1922||Independent|||||||
||Qavām os-Saltaneh|22 June 1922|15 February 1923||Reformers' Party|||||||
||Hassan Mostowfi al-Mamalek|15 February 1923|15 June 1923||Revival Party|||||||
||Hassan Pirnia|15 June 1923|26 October 1923||Independent|||||||
||Reza Khan Sardar Sepah|26 October 1923|12 December 1925||Military|||||||
|colspan="9" bgcolor="lightgrey"|• **Imperial State of Iran** (1925–1979) •|||||||||||
||Mohammad-Ali Foroughi|12 December 1925|13 June 1926||Revival Party|||||||
||Mostowfi ol-Mamalek|13 June 1926|2 June 1927||Revival Party|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Mehdi Hedayat|rowspan=2|2 June 1927|rowspan=2|18 September 1933|rowspan=2||Revival Party||
|Independent||||||||||||
||Mohammad-Ali Foroughi|18 September 1933|3 December 1935||Independent|||||||
||Mahmoud Jam|3 December 1935|26 October 1939||Independent|||||||
||Ahmad Matin-Daftari|26 October 1939|26 June 1940||Independent|||||||
||Ali Mansur|26 June 1940|27 August 1941||Independent|||||||
||Mohammad-Ali Foroughi|27 August 1941|9 March 1942||Independent|||||||
||Ali Soheili|9 March 1942|9 August 1942||Independent|||||||
||Ahmad Qavam|9 August 1942|15 February 1943||Independent|||||||
||Ali Soheili|15 February 1943|6 April 1944||Independent|||||||
||Mohammad Sa'ed|6 April 1944|25 November 1944||Independent|||||||
||Morteza-Qoli Bayat|25 November 1944|13 May 1945||Independent|||||||
||Ebrahim Hakimi|13 May 1945|6 June 1945||Independent|||||||
||Mohsen Sadr|6 June 1945|30 October 1945||Independent|||||||
||Ebrahim Hakimi|30 October 1945|28 January 1946||Independent|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Ahmad Qavam|rowspan=2|28 January 1946|rowspan=2|18 December 1947|rowspan=2||Independent||
|Democrat Party of Iran||||||||||||
||Mohammad-Reza Hekmat|18 December 1947|29 December 1947||Democrat Party of Iran|||||||
||Ebrahim Hakimi|29 December 1947|13 June 1948||Independent|||||||
||Abdolhossein Hazhir|13 June 1948|9 November 1948||Independent|||||||
||Mohammad Sa'ed|9 November 1948|23 March 1950||Independent|||||||
||Ali Mansur|23 March 1950|26 June 1950||Independent|||||||
||Ali Razmara|26 June 1950|7 March 1951||Military|||||||
||Khalil Fahimi|7 March 1951|12 March 1951||Independent|||||||
||Hossein Ala'|12 March 1951|27 April 1951||Independent|||||||
||Mohammad Mosaddegh|28 April 1951|17 July 1952||National Front|||||||
||Ahmad Qavam|17 July 1952|22 July 1952||Independent|||||||
||Mohammad Mosaddegh|22 July 1952|19 August 1953||National Front|||||||
||Fazlollah Zahedi|19 August 1953|7 April 1955||Military|||||||
||Hossein Ala'|7 April 1955|3 April 1957||Independent|||||||
||Manouchehr Eghbal|3 April 1957|31 August 1960||Nationalists’ Party|||||||
||Jafar Sharif-Emami|31 August 1960|5 May 1961||Nationalists’ Party|||||||
||Ali Amini|5 May 1961|19 July 1962||Independent|||||||
||Asadollah Alam|19 July 1962|7 March 1964||People's Party|||||||
||Hassan-Ali Mansur|7 March 1964|26 January 1965||New Iran Party|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Amir-Abbas Hoveyda|rowspan=2|26 January 1965|rowspan=2|7 August 1977|rowspan=2||New Iran Party||
|Rastakhiz Party||||||||||||
||Jamshid Amouzegar|7 August 1977|27 August 1978||Rastakhiz Party|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Jafar Sharif-Emami|rowspan=2|27 August 1978|rowspan=2|6 November 1978|rowspan=2||Rastakhiz Party||
|Independent||||||||||||
||Gholam Reza Azhari|6 November 1978|4 January 1979||Military|||||||
||Shapour Bakhtiar|4 January 1979|11 February 1979||Independent|||||||
|colspan="9" bgcolor="lightgrey"|• **Islamic Republic of Iran** (1979–present) •|||||||||||
||Mehdi Bazargan مهدی بازرگان|4 February 1979|6 November 1979||Freedom Movement of Iran|||||||
|colspan=3|**Council of the Islamic Revolution** شورای انقلاب اسلامی|colspan=1|6 November 1979|12 August 1980|colspan=1|colspan=1| –|||||||
||Mohammad-Ali Rajai محمدعلی رجائی|12 August 1980|4 August 1981||Islamic Republican Party|||||||
||Mohammad-Javad Bahonar محمدجواد باهنر|4 August 1981|30 August 1981||Islamic Republican Party|||||||
||Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani محمدرضا مهدوی کنی|2 September 1981|31 October 1981||Combatant Clergy Association|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Mir-Hossein Mousavi میرحسین موسوی خامنه|rowspan=2|31 October 1981|rowspan=2|14 August 1989|rowspan=2||Islamic Republican Party||
|Independent||||||||||||
|colspan="9"|_Post abolished (14 August 1989 – present)_|||||||||||

## Living former prime ministers

|Name|Picture|Term|Date of birth|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Mir-Hossein Mousavi||1981–1989||

## More readings

- For a full list of Viziers of Iran in the last 2000 years, see: "Iranian Viziers: From Bozorgmehr to Amir Kabir" (وزیران ایرانی از بزرگمهر تا امیر کبیر) by Abdolrafi' Haqiqat (عبدالرفیع حقیقت). Perry–Castañeda Library collection DS 271 F34 1995
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar, _Taarikh-e Mokhtasar-e Ahzaab-e Siaasi-e Iraan_ (A Short History of Political Parties of Iran), Amirkabir, 1978.
- Encyclopædia Iranica's entries on "Ala-al-Saltana, Mohammad-Ali" and "Akbar Sepahdar-e Azam, Fathallah"
- various articles in The Persian Encyclopedia
- 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), _Iran in the Past Three Centuries_ (_Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh_ - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003).  (Vol. 1),  (Vol. 2).

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Prime Minister
- **body**: Iran
- **insignia**: Emblem of Iran.svg
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of Iran, Official standard
(1979–1989)
- **type**: Head of Government
- **status**: **Office abolished**
- **member of**: Cabinet of Iran
Supreme National Security Council
- **residence**: Marble Palace (Tehran), Marble Palace
- **appointer**: The Parliament of Iran, Parliament
- **precursor**: List of Grand Viziers of Persia, Grand Vizier of Persia
- **formation**: 1 August 1906
- **first**: Mirza Nasrullah Khan
- **last**: Mir-Hossein Mousavi
- **abolished**: 3 August 1989
- **succession**: President of Iran
Vice President of Iran