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He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolished the monarchy, serving from February 1980 until his impeachment by parliament in June 1981. Prior to his presidency, he was the minister of foreign affairs in the interim government.
Abolhasan Bani-Sadr (born March 22, 1933, Hamadan, Iran—died October 9, 2021, Paris, France) was an Iranian economist and politician who in 1980 was elected the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was dismissed from office in 1981 after being impeached for incompetence.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 9, 2021 · Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran tried and failed to resist the currents of religious radicalism, died on Saturday at the Pitié-Salpêtrière ...
- Stephen Kinzer
Oct 9, 2021 · Banisadr was elected president in 1980 but impeached and exiled in 1981 for challenging the clerical rule. He later co-founded a group to overthrow the regime and accused Khomeini of betraying the revolution.
Oct 9, 2021 · Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021.
Oct 9, 2021 · Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation...
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Oct 9, 2021 · Tehran, Iran – Abolhassan Banisadr, who became Iran’s first president following the country’s 1979 revolution, has died in Paris, where he lived for decades after fleeing his country.
