In 1979, after the deposition of the government of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in February of that year, an interim government was established under Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan which sought to establish a nationalist Islamic democratic  government with pro-free market economic policy, in opposition to the wishes of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his pro-Islamic Republic faction.
In 1979, after the resignation of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in February, an interim government led by Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan was formed. This administration sought to create a nationalist Islamic democratic system with free-market economic policies, opposing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his faction that favored an Islamic Republic.