Mohammad Javad Bagher Tondguyan (Persian: محمدجواد تندگویان; 16 June 1950 – 16 December 1991) was an Iranian engineer and petroleum minister under Prime Minister Mohammad-Ali Rajai from 2 September to 3 November 1980 when he was captured by the Iraqi forces in November 1980 during Iran-Iraq war.

[1][2] Tondguyan was involved in opposition movement against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1967 and was detained for eleven months[2] and interrogated by the SAVAK.

[3] The association hosted Ali Shariati, one of the philosophical and political leaders of the Islamic revolution, as a speaker during the 1960s and 1970s.

[3] Tondguyan was also one of the figures who disseminated the views of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Abadan during this period.

[4] Tondguyan was captured by the Iraqi forces on his tour to the fronts on the Abadan road in Khuzestan province on 3 November 1980 at the initial phase of the Iran-Iraq war which lasted from 1980 to 1988.