List of Prime Ministers of Iran

This is a list of Prime Ministers of Iran from the creation of the office in 1907 during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, until 1989 when the post was abolished after the constitutional referendum.

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Qajar Dynasty (1907-1925)

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Shah
1	Amir Asghar Khan		1 May 1907	31 August 1907	Independent	Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar
2	Mirza Nasrullah Khan		9 September 1907	13 September 1907	Independent	Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar
3	Sepahsalar-e Tonekaboni		25 October 1907	21 December 1907	Independent	Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
4	Husain Mafi		21 December 1907	21 May 1908	Independent	Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
5	Murtaza Hedayat		21 May 1908	7 June 1908	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
6	Sepahsalar-e Tonekaboni		7 June 1908	29 April 1909	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
7	Kamran Mirza		29 April 1909	3 May 1909	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
8	Saad ad-Daula		3 May 1909	16 July 1909	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
9	Sepahsalar-e Tonekaboni		16 July 1909	6 October 1909	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
10	Vosough od-Dowleh		6 October 1909	15 July 1910	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
11	Mostowfi ol-Mamalek		15 July 1910	19 July 1911	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
12	Vosough od-Dowleh		19 July 1911	26 July 1911	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
13	Sepahsalar-e Tonekaboni		26 July 1911	23 December 1912	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
14	Saad ad-Daula		23 December 1912	11 January 1913	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
15	Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan		11 January 1913	1 July 1914	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
16	Mostowfi ol-Mamalek		1 July 1914	1 February 1915	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
17	Hossein Farmanfarma		1 February 1915	2 July 1915	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
18	Abdol Majid Mirza		2 July 1915	18 August 1915	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
19	Mostowfi ol-Mamalek		18 August 1915	25 December 1915	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
20	Hossein Farmanfarma		25 December 1915	1 March 1916	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
21	Vosough od-Dowleh		1 March 1916	7 July 1917	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
22	Mostowfi ol-Mamalek		7 July 1917	19 December 1917	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
23	Abdol Majid Mirza		28 December 1917	20 May 1918	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
24	Najaf Quli Khan		2 August 1918	20 May 1918	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
25	Hassan Pirnia		20 August 1918	16 October 1920	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
26	Najaf Quli Khan		16 October 1920	21 February 1921	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
27	Zia'eddin Tabatabaee		21 February 1921	4 June 1921	Homeland Party	Ahmad Shah Qajar
28	Ahmad Qavam		4 June 1921	12 October 1921	Democratic Party of Iran	Ahmad Shah Qajar
29	Shao es-Saltaneh		12 October 1921	20 January 1922	Democratic Party of Iran	Ahmad Shah Qajar
30	Hassan Pirnia		20 January 1922	11 June 1922	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
31	Ahmad Qavam		11 June 1922	30 January 1923	Democratic Party of Iran	Ahmad Shah Qajar
32	Mostowfi ol-Mamalek		30 January 1923	15 June 1923	Independent	Ahmad Shah Qajar
33	Hassan Pirnia		15 June 1923	28 October 1923	Constitutional Movement	Ahmad Shah Qajar
34	Reza Khan Sardar Sepah		28 October 1923	1 November 1925	Military	Ahmad Shah Qajar

Pahlavi Dynasty (1925-1979)

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Shah
35	Mohammad-Ali Foroughi		1 November 1925	13 June 1926	Revival Party	Reza Shah
36	Mostowfi ol-Mamalek		13 June 1926	2 June 1927	Independent	Reza Shah
37	Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat		2 June 1927	18 September 1933	Independent	Reza Shah
38	Mohammad-Ali Foroughi		18 September 1933	3 December 1935	Revival Party	Reza Shah
40	Mahmud Jam		3 December 1935	26 October 1939	Independent	Reza Shah
41	Ahmad Matin-Daftari		26 October 1939	26 June 1940	Independent	Reza Shah
42	Ali Mansur		26 June 1940	27 August 1941	Independent	Reza Shah
43	Mohammad-Ali Foroughi		27 August 1941	9 March 1942	Revival Party	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
44	Ali Soheili		9 March 1942	9 August 1942	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
45	Ahmad Qavam		9 August 1942	15 February 1943	Democratic Party of Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
46	Ali Soheili		15 February 1943	6 April 1944	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
47	Mohammad Sa'ed		6 April 1944	25 November 1944	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
48	Morteza-Qoli Bayat		25 November 1944	13 May 1945	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
49	Ebrahim Hakimi		13 May 1945	6 June 1945	Party for Progress	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
50	Mohsen Sadr		6 June 1945	30 October 1945	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
51	Ebrahim Hakimi		30 October 1945	28 January 1946	Party for Progress	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
52	Ahmad Qavam		28 January 1946	18 December 1947	Democratic Party of Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
53	Mohammad-Reza Mehdi Hekmat		18 December 1947	29 December 1947	Democratic Party of Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
54	Ebrahim Hakimi		29 December 1947	13 June 1948	Party for Progress	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
55	Abdolhossein Hazhir		13 June 1948	9 November 1948	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
56	Mohammad Sa'ed		9 November 1948	23 March 1950	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
57	Ali Mansur		23 March 1950	26 June 1950	Independent	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
58	Ali Razmara		26 June 1950	7 March 1951	Military	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
59	Hossein Ala'		12 March 1951	30 April 1951	Military	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
60	Mohammed Mosaddeq		30 April 1951	17 July 1952	National Front	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
61	Ahmad Qavam		17 July 1952	22 July 1952	Democratic Party of Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
62	Mohammed Mosaddeq		22 July 1952	19 August 1953	National Front	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
63	Fazlollah Zahedi		19 August 1953	7 April 1955	Military	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
64	Hossein Ala'		7 April 1955	3 April 1957	Military	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
65	Manouchehr Eghbal		3 April 1957	31 August 1960	Nationalist Party	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
66	Jafar Sharif-Emami		31 August 1960	5 May 1961	Nationalist Party	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
67	Ali Amini		5 May 1961	19 July 1962	Democratic Party of Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
68	Asadollah Alam		19 July 1962	7 March 1964	People's Party	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
69	Hassan-Ali Mansur		7 March 1964	26 January 1965	New Iran Party	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
70	Amir-Abbas Hoveida		26 January 1965	7 August 1977	New Iran Party (1965-1975) Iran Resurgence (1975-1977)	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
71	Jamshid Amouzegar		7 August 1977	27 August 1978	Iran Resurgence	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
72	Jafar Sharif-Emami		27 August 1978	6 November 1978	Iran Resurgence	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
73	Gholam Reza Azhari		6 November 1978	4 January 1979	Military	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
74	Shapour Bakhtiar		4 January 1979	11 February 1979	National Front	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Islamic Republic of Iran (1979-Present)

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party	President
75	Mehdi Bazargan		4 February 1979	6 November 1979	Liberation Movement of Iran	None
76	Mohammad-Ali Rajai		12 August 1980	4 August 1981	Islamic Republican Party	Abolhassan Banisadr
77	Mohammad-Javad Bahonar		4 August 1981	30 August 1981	Islamic Republican Party	Mohammad-Ali Rajai
78	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani		2 September 1981	31 October 1981	Islamic Republican Party	Ali Khamenei
79	Mir-Hossein Mousavi		31 October 1981	3 August 1989	Islamic Republican Party	Ali Khamenei

See also

• Prime Minister of Iran
• List of Premiers of Iran (1699-1907)

Sources

• 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
• "Iran in the last 3 Centuries" by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol1 ISBN 964-93406-6-1 Vol2 ISBN 964-93406-5-3