Najaf-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari ( fa, نجف‌قلی‌خان بختیاری) also known Saad al-Dowleh and Samsam al-Saltane (1846–1930), was an Iranian

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

and a leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was elected Prime Minister for two terms, first from 3 May 1909 to 16 July 1909 and again from 23 December 1912 to 17 January 1913, when he resigned from the office. He was a representative of Parliament of Iran from

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in the 4th Parliament. He was the older brother of

Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari Sardar Asaad Bakhtiari (1856–1917) ( Luri/Persian: ), also known as Haj Ali-Gholi Khan, Sardar Asaad II (born Ali-Gholi Khan) was an Iranian revolutionary and a chieftain of the Bakhtiari ''Haft Lang'' tribe. The third son of Hossein Gholi Khan ...

. He died in 1930 in

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Party affiliation

He is reported to be a member of the

Moderate Socialists Party Moderate Socialists ( fa, اجتماعیون اعتدالیون, Ejtemāʿīyūn-e eʿtedālīyūn) or simply Moderates Party ( fa, فرقه اعتدالیون), was a political party in Qajari Persia and one of the two major parties of the const ...

but he was favoured by the Democrat Party at the time appointed as the Prime Minister and formed a pro-

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cabinet.

References

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