Javad Shahrestani (1924 – 9 July 2016) was an Iranian engineer, academic and politician who served as the mayor of the City of

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. He was the last mayor to serve under the

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.muhammad sahimi "The Ten Days that Changed Iran. PBS, 3 Feb. 2919
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, he first became the

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in 1968 and served until 1969, when he was appointed first to the governorship of

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from 1969 to 1973 by the

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; he was replaced by

Gholamreza Nikpey Gholam-Reza Nikpey (غلامرضا نیک‌پی), also Nikpay (1927 – 11 April 1979) was deputy prime minister of Iran and Mayor of Tehran. He became List of mayors of Tehran, Mayor of Tehran in 1969, succeeding Javad Shahrestani. Prior to th ...

. He was later appointed to the cabinet and was the

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from 1973 to 1976. In 1977 he succeeded Nikpey as mayor and remained in the position until the

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of 1979. In February 1979, after

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's return to Tehran, and while

Shapour Bakhtiar Shapour Bakhtiar (, ; 26 June 19146 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the words of the historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in the tone of a jere ...

was still prime minister, he submitted his resignation to Khomeini, who in turn reappointed him as mayor. He was replaced after the revolution by

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, and never held a public position after the revolution. He is one of the few politicians to serve under the Shah, who was not arrested after the revolution. He became a professor at

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM, , ''Danushgah-e Ferdusi-ye Mashhad'') is a public university in Mashhad, the capital city of the Iranian province of Razavi Khorasan Province, Razavi Khorasan. FUM is named after Ferdowsi, Abul-Qâsem Ferdow ...

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