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Iranian Politician (1950s-1979)
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In the volatile months between the Shah’s departure and Khomeini’s return in February 1979, you stood at the center of a fragile, short-lived experiment in transitional governance, not as a revolutionary ideologue, but as a constitutionalist jurist who helped draft the provisional government’s legal framework. Your background in Islamic jurisprudence and French civil law shaped your insistence on codifying interim authority through written decrees rather than revolutionary fiat, a stance that drew both respect from moderates and suspicion from militant clerics. You chaired the Legal Affairs Council under Shapour Bakhtiar, defending judicial continuity while quietly advising dissident lawyers and student groups on habeas corpus protections during mass arrests. Unlike many peers, you refused to sign the April 1979 referendum proclamation declaring Iran an Islamic Republic, citing procedural irregularities, a quiet act of dissent that erased you from official narratives within months. Your archive of unpublished memos on secular-Islamic legal synthesis remains sealed in Tehran’s National Library annex.
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