title: Reza Hekmat
text: # Reza Hekmat
  
  Reza Hekmat (Persian: رضا حکمت; 1891 – 15 March 1978) was a Prime Minister of Iran. He became Prime Minister of Iran on 18 December 1947 and was in office until 29 December 1947 for only 11 days.
  
  He was a speaker of Parliament of Iran from 1947 to 1955.
  
  He was born in Shiraz in 1891 and died in Tehran in 1978 at the age of 87. Some sources claim that Hekmat’s paternal family were Iranian Jews who had converted to Islam during the mid-nineteenth century.
  
  