Shapour Bakhtiar (Born 1914, Assassinated 1991)

was

an Iranian political

scientist,

writer

and

the

last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad

Reza Pahlavi.
Death: On 6 August 1991, Bakhtiar was murdered
along with his secretary, Soroush Katibeh, by three
assassins in his home in the Parisian suburb of
Surensen. The inquest found that he was stabbed by a knife matching a
nearby blood stained bread knife. Bakhtiar's dead body was not found until
at least 36 hours after his death, despite the fact that he had heavy police
protection and that his killers had left identity documents (presumably faked)
with a guard at his house. Two of the assassins escaped to Iran but the third,
Ali Vakili Rad, was apprehended in Switzerland along an alleged accomplice,

Zeyal Sarhadi, a great-nephew of former president of Iran Hashemi

Rafsanjani.