Talk:List of prime ministers of Iran

To do
Found this guy using google: Mohammad Hossein Khan Esfehani. check with Persian Encyclopedia. roozbeh 22:47, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

Found another two: Mehdi Gholi Hedayat and Mokhber os-Saltaneh Hedayat. Second was premier under Reza Shah for six years. May be same guys. roozbeh 00:25, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
 * I will look for Mehdi Gholi Hedayat.--Sina 12:46, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hassan Pirnia was Prime Minister for one month in 1915 - this does not appear in the list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.28.65 (talk) 02:11, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar
Nice list, but there is a mistake: Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar died January 7, 2007.! --Wvk (talk) 06:26, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Mistakes
Really there's some mistakes. According french and german wikipedies the list are different. I can check that the french and german wikipedies are more corrects following Enciclopaedya of Islam; thus the prime minister Vosough od-Dowleh apper 3 times in the english list, two in french-german wikipedies (same as Enc. of Islam) and 5 or 6 times in worldstatesmen (http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Iran.htm). --95.17.89.240 (talk) 15:17, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

E'tedalion Party
Several entries in this list were marked as being members of the "E'tedalion Party" - an organization for which the accompanying article has subsequently been deleted as an apparent hoax (see List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/E'tedalion Party).

To address this issue, I have replaced the references to apparently fictional "E'tedalion Party" with the Party either previously listed against their names, or which might be reasonably from reading their articles. However, the changes could do with review by someone with a more detailed understanding of Iranian political history.

Happy to discuss if required. -- Euryalus (talk) 03:24, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Farmanfarma: dubious first term
I very much doubt the information about Farmanfarma's first term (Feb-July 1915). I have here a detailed chronology of his life, which carefully details each and every position he held, but in which there is no mention of this alleged first term ("A chronology of the life of Abdol Hossein Mirza Farman Farma", in: "Shahzdeh's Tree" by Mitra Farman Farmaian Jordan, Universal Printing, Seattle 1997). According to this book, in 1915 he becomes Minister of Interior; then he is mentioned to become Prime Minister at the end of the year, while keeping his position of Minister of Interior as well. The chronology clearly then states: He has served as Prime Minister for only two months and ten days: this accounts for the "second" term; I think the "first" term never existed. (Maybe it was invented to fill a hole in the list!) Sapphorain (talk) 09:37, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * You seem to be right. I checked his Iranica article and that also says that he only served one term as PM. The fawiki article also only mentions one term. Brustopher (talk) 10:31, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I checked the history of the page, and it seems this "first" term appeared on Jan 5, 2007, by an ip (89.216.181.132) which contributed only in January 2007, only on various lists of rulers, for which it never provided any source. And this entry has never been questioned afterwards, except by a (banned!) user who slightly modified the span of this "first" term. I am afraid the whole first part of the list is very suspect. Sapphorain (talk) 10:36, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * … And thanks for the link to Farmanfarma on Iranica, I didn't know this entry existed. Sapphorain (talk) 11:10, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have removed Farmanfarma's first term, so there is a gap now between February and July 1915... I have also remodeled Farmanfarma's article and Template:Prime Ministers of Iran to reflect changes on this list. --Sundostund (talk) 14:14, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, this might be a little hasty. Since the whole list is dubious, and very different from both the German and Iranian lists, it might have been better to put first a warning template on the article (I'll do that anyway). Sapphorain (talk) 21:49, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've just realised I've got online access to a copy of Iran between two revolutions by Abrahamian. I think I might be able to use it to iron out the chronology a bit within the next few weeks. From what I can see so far (you can't quickly flick through this kind of ebook) it doesn't contain a complete chronology of all the prime ministers in it. Brustopher (talk) 23:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Sapphorain, I just wanted to help here. If you and other editors disagree, you are free to revert my edits... Brustopher, if you plan to iron out the chronology, please don't use sources which doesn't contain a complete chronology of all the prime ministers. It can lead to even more confusion. Try to find sources with complete chronology before you change anything. --Sundostund (talk) 00:04, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Iranian Parties and the leader of the Council of Islamic Revolution
Morteza Motahhari was assassinated before the resignation of Mehdi Bazargan, and at the time of Bazargan's resignation, Abolhassan Banisadr was the leader of the Council of Islamic Revolution. Iran does not have long-lasting parties. There were few Prime ministers who were the members of specific parties during their incumbency. Shfarshid (talk) 23:56, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * That still doesn't explain why you completely removed the Constitutionalist Party of Iran from the list, or why you decided to scrap the general division of parties (conservative, reformist, etc) which was in use until now... Anyway, we'll see what other users have to say about your edits. In the meantime, I'll correct/improve your edits where I see it as necessary. --Sundostund (talk) 14:08, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

A lot of mistakes
There are lots of mistakes in this list. In Persian article, it was fixed. 109.162.217.245 (talk) 20:42, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 5 years ago I wrote this message with IP. Finally, I myself edit this article, and correct its mistakes! However, it needs more edits. Shfarshid (talk) 02:04, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I had to revert your edits. As you can see from my edit summary, I think that we should keep parties divided along a general line: liberal, conservative, reformist, etc. Next, your version totally eliminated the Constitutionalist Party from the list, although it was the most important party until the 1920s. Also, Banisadr wasn't the leader of Revolutionary Council in 1979–80, it was Motahhari. I'm sure there are some more controversial aspects of your version, I just wanted to highlight the most obvious ones. --Sundostund (talk) 14:40, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I think there is a gross confusion between being involved in the constitutional revolution - which everybody in a position of power at these times was, and in particular every prime minister - and belonging to the party of the constitutional revolution (whatever this might mean: there were no political parties in a modern sense at this time). In the version Sundostund defends, the tags "Constitutional Movement" seems to have been distributed randomly and very generously on this list. One must not forget that if the Majlies were in majority constitutionalists, the prime minister was chosen by the Shah, and although he had to obtain a vote of confidence of the Majlies, he was himself usually not a constitutionalist. For instance Farmanfarma was definitely not a constitutionalist: he was on the contrary a prominent figure of the class the Constitutionalists wished to oust from power! (Note that, correctly, the related wikipedia category reads "People of the Persian Constitutional Revolution", meaning of course everybody having to deal with the constitutional revolution, and not only those in favour of it). On the other hand, the version Shfarshid defends contains no tag "Constitutional Movement", which is impossible, and also contains incorrect dates (Farmanfarma was born in 1857, not 1859; he resigned on February 5, 1916, and not in March - his resignation was commented in the press on 12 and 16 February, and then on 2 and 3 March). So both versions appear very incorrect to me. Unfortunately I am in no way a specialist of the subject: I am just interested in the life of Farmanfarma for personal reasons Sapphorain (talk) 13:39, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * That's exactly my point here - Shfarshid completely removed the Constitutional Movement from the list! I never argued that every Iranian PM of the period was Constitutionalist, of course there were some different factions in power. I have no problem to admit that the version which I "defend" contain many mistakes, that's obvious and it should be and must be fixed... As for your observations about Farmanfarma, please change what you see as incorrect in the list (and don't limit yourself to just Farmanfarma). --Sundostund (talk) 14:17, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Dear friends, my defended version is supported by the reference that I mentioned it at the end of the article. If you disagree it, you should support your versions by at least an accurate reference. As far as I know, in Wikipedia we have to mention almost everything with an accurate reference.

I want you to notice that my edits were not only changing the prime ministers' political parties. I deleted the name of 3 politicians who were not prime ministers of Iran. They are Malek Mansur Mirza (Mohammad-Ali Shah's brother), Morteza-Gholi Khan Hedayat (speaker of parliament) and Momtaz os-Saltaneh (Iranian minister plenipotentiary in France). There are also lots of changes in the order of this list that are in accordance with the reference.

Dear Sundostund, please notice that Morteza Motahhari was assassinated before the resignation of Mehdi Bazargan, and at the time of Bazargan's resignation, Abolhassan Banisadr was the leader of the Council of Islamic Revolution (Please refer to the article Council of Islamic Revolution).

Dear Sapphorain, the Constitutional movement was not a political party. In the first parliament, there were no parties. Iran does not have long-lasting parties. There were few Prime ministers who were the members of established parties during their incumbency. If you like to know more about the early Iranian parties, please see this Iranica article. Kind regards, Shfarshid (talk) 15:00, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I read the article concerning the political parties, and I now agree that the constitutional movement was not a political party but a revolutionary movement, and that none of the prime ministers can be said to have clearly approved of it (although some of them had ties with politicians who did). I also approve your suppression of people who clearly were never prime ministers. However, I noticed you changed a number of dates, and according to VIAAF you are always wrong. I only checked one instance on iranica online: according to iranica on line, Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan is born in 1858, and not in 1843 as you changed it. There are also some blue links that became red because you modified some names. Sapphorain (talk) 16:28, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Even if not a single PM was officially Constitutionalist, there must be some of them who were very strongly linked with that movement (we all know the importance of the Constitutionalist Movement in the early 20th century Persia/Iran), so that should be reflected in this list as well. Next, as I said - I truly believe that we should mark parties by their political orientation (conservative, reformist, etc), not as Shfarshid did in his version. Iran has a long-lasting tradition (not just after 1979) of "classifying" parties as either conservative, reformist, moderate (or something else) and we should keep that model in this list as well. As for the Motahhari/Banisadr issue, I'm satisfied by the given explanation. I wasn't aware that Motahhari was assassinated while Bazargan was still in the office. --Sundostund (talk) 16:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

According to Iranica, Farmanfarma was born in 1858. Regarding Amin al-Soltan (Atabak) date of birth, I made a mistake, sorry. According to "Iran in the Great War (1914-1918)", Farmanfarma resigned on 29th February 1916, so I accept another mistake. I am going to fix these mistakes and add the references. Furthermore, the only blue link that became red is Javad Sa'd al-Dowleh (Saad ad-Daula). Unfortunately, the article Saad ad-Daula is another misleading WP article. The image of this article belongs to Najaf-Qoli Samsam al-Saltaneh not Javad Sa'd al-Dowleh. This article considers these two different prime ministers as the one person, without citing any reference!

Dear Sapphorian, could you please explain more about VIAAF. I'm not familiar with this source.

Dear Sundostund, if you could find an accurate reference, we can improve this article as you wish (the political affiliation of PMs of Iran). Please notice that at the moment this article has one reference. I know that it should be improved. At least the order of the names is now fixed and 3 fake PMs were deleted. I am so keen to cooperate with you to improve this article with accurate references. Shfarshid (talk) 02:54, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for all the changes and correction of mistakes. According to WorldCat Abdol-Hossein Farmanfarma was born in 1857: . According to the Virtual International Authority File, also: . These informations (if available) are to be found on the page of each person on the english wikipedia. As you can see these represent not only one, but a large number of sources that all say he was born in 1857. So only one source saying differently is not enough to change that date (unless it is his birth certificate!) I have two books on Farmanfarma's life, translated from the Persian. One says he was born in 1858, and the other in 1859. Both are very imprecise regarding occidental dates, and it is probably in part due to the fact that there actually was a change of calendar in Iran.Sapphorain (talk) 08:31, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you Sapphorain, please edit the Farmanfarma's date of birth with adding your references. I agree with you. Shfarshid (talk) 10:56, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course, I'm looking forward to our cooperation on this article as well. I have plans to change some stuff in your version. For instance, I'll change some party colors which you added (colors for New Iran Party, Rastakhiz, Islamic Republican Party, military officeholders, and maybe some more). I'm sure we can find some better solutions about that... Also, you added a wrong coat of arms in the place of missing pictures during the Qajar period (instead of Qajar, you placed the coat of arms which was used during the Pahlavi dynasty). --Sundostund (talk) 14:37, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, I finished most of the changes which I planned to do. I hope you'll find it useful. --Sundostund (talk) 18:50, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

The (3 days?!) premiership of Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh appears to be very dubious, according to Iranica: (which also gives 1929 as the year of his death, as his article says: I am correcting this). Sapphorain (talk) 22:37, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * According to the first reference of this article, Kamran Mirza was prime minister for 3 days. In the 8th paragraph of Kamran Mirza Nayeb-al-Saltana entry of Iranica, this is also mentioned in a vague manner.

Thank you for paying time and effort to improve this article. You chose 3 green, 2 red (one of them maybe pink) and 2 blue colours for the parties. They are so similar. I believe you should choose more different colours with high contrast. Concerning Lion and Sun (former emblem of Iran), I should state that it was the official emblem of the state of Iran according to "the supplementary fundamental laws of October 7, 1907". This emblem did not belong to Qajar or Pahlavi dynasties. This was also used during Safavid, Afsharid and Zand era. The tag of is misleading. Anyway, I have a better idea. There are appropriate images in Persian Wikipedia for all of Iranian PMs. We can also use them in English Wikipedia. Do you know how they can be transferred to Wikimedia commons? Shfarshid (talk) 00:48, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe those colors should be similar - they represent parties of similar political background (royalist, Islamist, etc). They can't be represented by some random, unrelated colors. Its the principle which is used in almost every list of officeholders on English Wikipedia... As for Lion and Sun, we'll see what to do about that. In my opinion, we should keep the (currently used) coat of arms of Iran during the time of the Qajar dynasty, as it contain Lion and Sun anyway. As for images, I'd support inclusion of images of all Iranian PMs, but its not easy to meet all the criteria at the Commons (many images placed there are quickly deleted due to that). I'm really not an expert in that field (most of my images there where deleted over time). --Sundostund (talk) 01:20, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, anyway thank you. Shfarshid (talk) 02:40, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I wish to thank you as well - you did a really serious work on this article, found sources, and corrected many mistakes which existed in the previous version. I think that we, together, managed to turn this article into something which is acceptable to both of us (and to other editors, I hope). --Sundostund (talk) 14:12, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Constitutionalist Party of Iran
This article appears very suspicious to me, in the light of for instance the Iranica article on the political parties during the Constutional period that you showed me:. It claims this party was founded (in Iran) in 1908, which appears blatantly false. It has only one source, that mentions foundation of the party in 1994 in the United States, but not that it existed before as a party in Iran. What do you think? Sapphorain (talk) 11:55, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Sapphorain, you're absolutely right. In the only reference of that article, there is nothing regarding the foundation of the party in 1908. Unfortunately, it is totally misleading. Shfarshid (talk) 12:27, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * If that article is indeed misleading and without references, it must be corrected somehow. As it stands now, it suggest that the Constitutionalist Party was the most important political organization in the early 20th century Persia/Iran. --Sundostund (talk) 14:16, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

List of Speakers
I see that Sapphorain already removed misleading content from the Constitutionalist Party of Iran article. In the light of that, as well as having in mind changes which are implemented in this article, I must raise the issue of parties at List of Speakers of the Parliament of Iran. We must change it as well somehow, remove misleading stuff (Constitutionalist Party is quite present there, etc). What you guys think about that? --Sundostund (talk) 14:24, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, clearly this must be corrected also. In fact this is not another issue, it is all linked together. It appears somebody had been trying to promote this Constitutionalist Party of Iran by inventing an early foundation in Iran in 1908. As you can check, the english page I pruned is now similar in content to the iranian page. A "Category:Constitutionalist Party of Iran politicians" was also created, in which a number of old politicians were unduly inserted. I have removed all of them, and the category now contains a single person (who is the founder in 1994 of this party). The article on the party will probably be nominated for deletion, as a notability template is on it since April 2016.
 * However, I am not a specialist on iranian politicians and I don't have at my disposition the documents User:Shfarshid has. For the time being I am (little by little) reflecting the recent changes by Shfarshid on the individual pages of old PMs. Sapphorain (talk) 09:38, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear friends, I agree. But the main problem is finding an accurate reference. The information for the speakers of the parliament before Islamic revolution is totally wrong. Unfortunately, the dates of this table are also wrong. For the first step, I think it's better to remove the party colors totally for this period of parliament of Iran. Shfarshid (talk) 13:57, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, this issue is clearly linked to our discussion here - I used the term "another issue" just in general meaning. Anyway, I changed the name of this section... Shfarshid, please be more precise - do you want to remove colors of all speakers before Islamic revolution? I can agree with that, but not in all cases - we have colors for National Front, Rastakhiz, and some other parties. There's no reason to remove them as well. Of course, Constitutionalist Party should be removed completely. --Sundostund (talk) 14:22, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I meant that. Mohammad Tadayyon was one of the principal members of Revival Party. Mohammad-Sadeq Tabatabai was one of the founders of Moderate Socialist Party (Ejtem'iyun-e E'tedaliyun), but when he became the speaker of parliament, this party was not active. Abol-Ghasem Kashani was not a member of National Front. Abdollah Riazi was independent. (After foundation of Rastakhiz Party, all of politicians have to be a member of this party, but there were 2 or 3 factions inside this party.) Unfortunately, at the moment I do not have an accurate reference for these party memberships. I only want you to know that the information in this list is quite misleading and I think for now, it is better to delete all the parties before the Islamic revolution. After finding an accurate reference, we can improve the list. Shfarshid (talk) 23:50, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * As I said, I can't support the removal of all colors of speakers before the Islamic revolution. That especially apply for the Revival Party and the post-1975 (Rastakhiz) period... I think you should find some accurate reference(s) about speakers before we start changes on that article, in the same way as was done here, on the list of PMs. --Sundostund (talk) 23:58, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, I agree. Maybe one of the useful references for this subject is "Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982)" which is written by Ervand Abrahamian. I also thank you for the recent useful edits. I want to notice you that Mozaffar al-Din Shah was died on 3 January 1907, so Mirza Nasrullah Khan Moshir al-Dowleh was also the first prime minister (or more precisely grand vizier) of Mohammad-Ali Shah. Could you please show this in the table? Furthermore, I do not believe that Ali Mansur was deposed by occupying Anglo-Soviet forces. Reza Shah ordered the resignation of him, as it mentioned in Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Shfarshid (talk) 01:13, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I also want to thank you, for editing the articles of prime ministers of Iran, with regard to recent changes in this list. Shfarshid (talk) 01:16, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * If you can find that book of Abrahamian, please use it as a reference. It can certainly be helpful... As for the corrections in the table - of course, I'll do it as soon as possible. --Sundostund (talk) 01:31, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * As you can see, I changed the reason for the end Mansur's term from "deposed" to "resigned", while keeping the link to the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (as his resignation was clearly connected to the invasion). As for the change in the table about Mirza al-Dowleh being the Grand Vizier of both Shahs, I don't really know how to do that. Its not an easy change to do, and apparently I've forgot how it should be done (its been awhile since I did last such change)... Its not a huge deal anyway - the present version creates an inconsistency of just two months in the list. --Sundostund (talk) 14:21, 9 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree with the word "resigned". I tried to fix the problem of Mozaffar al-Din Shah death and Mohammad-Ali Shah succession during Nasrullah Moshir al-Saltaneh incumbancy. I hope you agree with the changes. Furthermore, I should explain that the word "Mirza" is not a given name. If it is used before a given name, it's just a style (like the word "Sir"). If it is used after a given name (for example Kamran Mirza) it means prince (Prince Kamran). On the other hands, the epithet of the first prime minister was "Moshir al-Dowleh" (at that time, few Iranians had a family name). So because of preventing such misunderstanding, I changed the order of the first prime minister's name in the list. Please notice that the other names were already simplified. For example, the fourth prime minister's full name was "Mirza Ahmad Khan Moshir al-Saltaneh", which was simplified to "Ahmad Moshir al-Saltaneh". Shfarshid (talk) 00:09, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, I agree with the changes. At the moment, I don't have an idea how to do it differently (if I get an idea, I'll try to do it in some other way). As for the word "Mirza" etc, I really don't see some big issue in it. I have no problem to accept your changes about that as well. --Sundostund (talk) 00:34, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

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List of Prime Ministers of Iran → List of prime ministers of Iran – It should be moved for the sake of consistency with similar articles, including List of presidents of Iran. Sundostund (talk) 04:54, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Other articles in Category:Lists of prime ministers by country are all over the place and the relevant part of the style guide is controversial so this should be discussed first. Timrollpickering (talk) 13:59, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
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