Tehran: abolhasan banisdri, the first president of Iran after the country 1979 Islamic Revolution He died on Saturday, who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of the clerics as the nation became a theocracy. He was 88 years old.
amidst a sea of black clothes Shia cleric, Banisdra stood out for his western-style suit and a background so French that it was in philosophical Jean-Paul Sartre that he professed his belief that he would be Iran’s first president for about 15 years before this could happen.
Those differences only alienated him as the nationalist sought to establish a socialist-style economy in Iran, based on his deep Shia faith established by his cleric father.
Banisdar would never tighten his grip on the government he led as events far beyond his control, such as US Embassy Hostage Crisis and Iraq’s invasion of Iran, only added to the chaos that followed the revolution.
True power remained with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, with whom Banisdar worked in exile in France and moved back to Tehran in the midst of the revolution. But Khomeini threw Banisadr aside after only 16 months in office, sending him back to Paris, where he would remain for decades.
Banisdar later said of Khomeini, “I was like a child watching my father slowly become an alcoholic.” “The medicine was power this time.”
Banisdar’s family said in a statement on Saturday that he died in a Paris hospital after a prolonged illness.
amidst a sea of black clothes Shia cleric, Banisdra stood out for his western-style suit and a background so French that it was in philosophical Jean-Paul Sartre that he professed his belief that he would be Iran’s first president for about 15 years before this could happen.
Those differences only alienated him as the nationalist sought to establish a socialist-style economy in Iran, based on his deep Shia faith established by his cleric father.
Banisdar would never tighten his grip on the government he led as events far beyond his control, such as US Embassy Hostage Crisis and Iraq’s invasion of Iran, only added to the chaos that followed the revolution.
True power remained with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, with whom Banisdar worked in exile in France and moved back to Tehran in the midst of the revolution. But Khomeini threw Banisadr aside after only 16 months in office, sending him back to Paris, where he would remain for decades.
Banisdar later said of Khomeini, “I was like a child watching my father slowly become an alcoholic.” “The medicine was power this time.”
Banisdar’s family said in a statement on Saturday that he died in a Paris hospital after a prolonged illness.
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