Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bakhtiar ya koma Iran a 1946 kuma ya shiga Jam'iyyar Social Democratic Iran a 1949 kuma ya jagoranci kungiyar matasa. A shekara ta 1951 ma'aikatar kwadago ta nada shi darektan sashen kwadago a lardin Isfahan. Daga baya ya riƙe wannan matsayin a Khuzestan, cibiyar masana'antar mai. A shekara ta 1951 Mohammad Mosaddeq ya hau mulki a Iran. A lokacin da ya zama firaminista an nada Bakhtiar mataimakin ministan aiki a 1953. Bayan da aka mayar da Shah ta hanyar juyin mulki na Birtaniya da Amurka
, Bakhtiar ya kasance mai sukar mulkinsa.