Abbas Amir Entezam, 'Longest-Serving Political Prisoner', Dies at 86

From the outset of his time on the council, the young Amir-Entezam assumed heavy responsibilities. In 1953, most of the executive council members of the National Resistance Movement had been detained. Only eight of its members remained free. Four months after the coup, at 8 PM on October 1953, members of the National Resistance Movement assembled in a secret night-time meeting that started after a minor delay; with short notice, Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister appointed under Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi and Mehdi Bazargan, the first Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic, arrived at the meeting.