The Government of Mohammad-Ali Rajai was the first government of Iran after the

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. At that time, Abolhassan Banisadr was

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and

Mohammad-Ali Rajai Mohammad-Ali Rajai (; 15 June 1933 – 30 August 1981) was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai had served as prime minister un ...

was

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Banisadr's Presidency

He was elected to a four-year term as president on 25 January 1980, receiving 78.9 percent of the vote in a competitive election against Ahmad Madani,

Hassan Habibi Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (; 29 January 1937 – 31 January 2013) was an Iranian politician, lawyer, scholar and the first vice president from 1989 until 2001 under Presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami. He was also a member of ...

, Sadegh Tabatabaee, Dariush Forouhar,

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (, 24 February 1936 – 15 September 1982) was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister (30 November 1979 – August 1980) during the Ir ...

, Kazem Sami, Mohammad Makri, Hassan Ghafourifard, and Hassan Ayat, and inaugurated on 4 February. Khomeini remained the Supreme Leader of Iran, with the constitutional authority to dismiss the President. The inaugural ceremonies were held at the hospital where Khomeini was recovering from a heart ailment.Facts on File 1980 Yearbook, p88 Banisadr was not an

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ic cleric; Khomeini had insisted that clerics should not run for positions in the government. In August and September 1980, Banisadr survived two

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crashes near the Iranian border with

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. Banisadr soon fell out with Khomeini, who reclaimed the power of Commander-in-Chief on 10 June 1981.

Rajai's Prime Ministership

After the

in 1979, he became

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in the Interim Government of

Mehdi Bazargan Mehdi Bazargan (; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Interim government of Iran, 1979, Iran's interim government. One of the leading figures of Iranian Revolutio ...

. When Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as president, The

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elected him as the new prime minister. He was prime minister of Islamic Republic of Iran from 1980 to 1981. He was also

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for five months, 11 March 1981 to 15 August 1981, while he was Prime Minister.

Members of the cabinet

During the nomination process, there were serious tensions between Rajai and Banisadr due to the latter's objections over the candidates. List of members of Rajai's cabinet was as follows:

References

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Rajai

Banisadr's Presidency

Rajai's Prime Ministership

Members of the cabinet

See also

References