Abolhassan Banisadr: Iran's first president after revolution dies at 88
Abolhassan Banisadr, who became Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic Revolution before fleeing into exile, has died at the age of 88./ Elected president in 1980, Banisadr was impeached 16 months after taking office for challenging the growing power of clerics./ He fled to France, where he was briefly part of a group dedicated to trying to overthrow the clerical authorities./ His family say he died at a Paris hospital after a long illness./ In the 1960s, Banisadr was jailed in Iran for his opposition to the country's monarch, the ...
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