Prime Minister of Iran

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Prime minister of Iran was a political post in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century. It began in 1906 during the Qajar dynasty, and continued into the Pahlavi dynasty from 1923 and, following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, into the Islamic Republic of Iran, before being abolished in 1989. After 1989 the responsibilities of prime minister were divided between the president and first vice president. The constitution of the Constitutional Revolution contained no article defining the office, which developed instead through parliamentary convention. It was given a detailed definition for the first time in the 1979 constitution, which created a dual executive in which the president nominated the prime minister but could not remove him. Persistent conflict between the two offices was among the stated reasons for the constitutional revision of 1989, which abolished the post.

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