1. Ebrahim Yazdi was an Iranian politician, pharmacist, and diplomat who served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis.
Ebrahim Yazdi traveled to the United States in 1961 to continue his education and in the US, continued his involvement in political activities against the Shah.
Ebrahim Yazdi was co-founder of the Freedom Movement of Iran, Abroad, along with Mostafa Chamran, Ali Shariati, and Sadegh Qotbzadeh in 1961.
In 1975, Ebrahim Yazdi was tried in absentia in an Iranian military court and condemned to ten years imprisonment, with orders issued for his arrest upon return to Iran.
Ebrahim Yazdi became a naturalized US citizen in Houston in 1971.
Ebrahim Yazdi worked as a research assistant of pathology and research instructor of pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston until 1977.
Ebrahim Yazdi worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston.
From 1961 to 1977, Ebrahim Yazdi founded the Muslim Students Association from the United States and later became a spokesman for Paris-based Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ebrahim Yazdi translated the reports of Khomeini into English in a press conference on 3 February 1979 in Tehran.
Ebrahim Yazdi was the deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until 6 November 1979.
Ebrahim Yazdi proposed to celebrate 'Jerusalem Day' and his suggestion was endorsed by Khomeini in August 1979.
Ebrahim Yazdi asked and received permission of Khomeini to expel the occupiers, but shortly thereafter found out Khomeini had changed his mind and appeared on state television openly endorsed the takeover of the embassy.
Ebrahim Yazdi was present in the Revolutionary Court in the Alavi School in Tehran and acted as interrogator, prosecutor, and defense lawyer at the same time in cooperation with the judge Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhaali.
In contrast to Ebrahim Yazdi, Bazargan supported a general amnesty for all members of the Shah's regime, provided that they cease to act against the revolution.
Ebrahim Yazdi publicly opposed the secret trials and the summary executions carried out by the Revolutionary Courts, led by Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhaali.
Ebrahim Yazdi protested vigorously against the judicial killings of people who had been close to Shah and that got him into trouble with people around Khomeini.
In December 1997, Ebrahim Yazdi was arrested on unknown charges and detained in Evin prison in Tehran.
Under pressure from the revolutionary court prosecutor, Ebrahim Yazdi offered his resignation as FMI Leader from on 20 March 2011 to the leadership council of the FMI.
Ebrahim Yazdi was arrested in December 1997 for "desecrating religious sanctities" and freed on 26 December on bail.
On 17 June 2009, during the 2009 Iranian election protests, it was reported that Ebrahim Yazdi was arrested while undergoing tests at the Tehran hospital according to the Freedom Movement of Iran website.
On 28 December 2009, Ebrahim Yazdi was arrested again in the wake of renewed protests, according to the Jaras reformist website.
On 27 August 2017, Ebrahim Yazdi died of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 85 in Izmir, Turkey, where he was under treatment.
Ebrahim Yazdi's body transferred to Iran and was buried in Behesht-e Zahra.