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Mehdi Bazargan appointed prime minister of Iran by Khomeini

On February 4, 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini named moderate politician Mehdi Bazargan as head of Iran’s provisional government.

The appointment signaled the emergence of a provisional government that the Carter administration had to assess for diplomatic engagement amid growing instability in Iran.

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