Shapour Bakhtiar (Born 1914, Assassinated 1991) was anIranianpolitical scientist, writer and the lastPrime Minister of Iranunder 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 inSwitzerland along an alleged accomplice, Zeyal Sarhadi, a great-nephew of former president of IranHashemi Rafsanjani.