[2] He was Vice-Chairman of the ad hoc committee on the drafting of International Convention against the Taking of Hostages in 1979.

[4] He obtained with honours a bachelor's degree in law and political sciences from Tehran University in 1957.

He left Iran in 1958 and he was conferred a doctorate in international relations by American University, Washington, D.C., in 1963.

Aseman (Sky), a reformist newspaper, was shut because of an interview with Bavand after just one week of publication.

Former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, had endorsed the paper in a letter published in its first edition, saying, "Whenever the space for life tightens; whenever the land dries up and is deprived of water," people "lift their eyes to the sky to keep hope alive.