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Mohammad-Ali Rajai

1933 - 1981

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Mohammad-Ali Rajai (Persian: محمدعلی رجایی; 15 June 1933 – 30 August 1981) was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai had served as prime minister under Abolhassan Banisadr, while concurrently occupying the position of foreign affairs minister from 11 March 1981 to 15 August 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammad-Ali Rajai has received more than 612,609 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Mohammad-Ali Rajai is the 2,343rd most popular politician (up from 3,111th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Iran (up from 114th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Iranian Politician.

Mohammad-Ali Rajai was the second president of Iran. He was the prime minister from 1980 to 1981 and president from 1981 to 1989. He was assassinated in 1981.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohammad-Ali Rajai ranks 2,343 out of 19,576. Before him are Gaston Doumergue, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Ælla of Northumbria, Barsine, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and Emperor Zhenzong. After him are Wang Zhaojun, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Theodoric II, Hage Geingob, Aleksandar Vučić, and Urraca of León.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Mohammad-Ali Rajai ranks 40. Before him are Costa-Gavras, Álvaro Siza Vieira, John Barry, Antonio Negri, Gene Wilder, and Richard R. Ernst. After him are Samora Machel, Steven Weinberg, Oliver Sacks, Jerzy Grotowski, David McCallum, and Gian Maria Volonté. Among people deceased in 1981, Mohammad-Ali Rajai ranks 21. Before him are Eugenio Montale, Béla Guttmann, René Clair, Joe Louis, Omar Bradley, and Harold Urey. After him are Marcel Breuer, William Saroyan, Samuel Barber, A. J. Cronin, Karl Böhm, and Miroslav Krleža.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad-Ali Rajai ranks 95 out of 631. Before him are Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831), Barkiyaruq (1081), Mazdak (450), Mohammad Khodabanda (1531), Bahram V (406), and Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (1305). After him are Atossa (-550), Sogdianus of Persia (-500), Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (873), Mordecai (null), Bahram Chobin (600), and Muhammad I Tapar (1082).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mohammad-Ali Rajai ranks 54. Before him are Ebrahim Raisi (1960), Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831), Barkiyaruq (1081), Mohammad Khodabanda (1531), Bahram V (406), and Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (1305). After him are Atossa (-550), Sogdianus of Persia (-500), Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (873), Muhammad I Tapar (1082), Yazdegerd I (400), and Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (1872).

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