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 Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar's government was dismissed in February, Mehdi Bazargan led an interim administration. This new government intended to establish a nationalist Islamic democratic system with free-market policies, opposing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his faction that supported an Islamic Republic.