Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died yesterday on the age of 88, in accordance with state media.
The previous statesman died within the French capital Paris on the Salpêtrière hospital “after a protracted battle with sickness” having lived there for many years since fleeing into exile. He was impeached simply 16 months after taking workplace for difficult the rising energy of the clerical institution because the republic grew to become a theocracy.
Born in 1933 within the Hamedan province of western Iran, Banisadr’s father was an ayatollah and buddy of the Islamic Republic’s founder and first Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Banisadr is claimed to have labored carefully with Khomeini throughout his personal exile in France, earlier than returning to Tehran because the revolution unfolded.
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Nonetheless, his relationship with Khomeini deteriorated and he was finally dismissed from parliament in 1981 with the Supreme Chief’s approval on account of “political incompetence”. In accordance with the AP Banisadr later mentioned of Khomeini, “I used to be like a toddler watching my father slowly flip into an alcoholic.” “The drug this time was energy,” he mentioned.
He additionally criticised the Supreme Chief, saying that he “bears heavy duty for the appalling catastrophe that has befallen the nation.”
Banisadr boarded an Iranian Air Power Boeing 707 and escaped to France with Massoud Rajavi, the chief of the Marxist-Islamist group, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) which is designated as a terrorist group by Iranian authorities. Along with his trademark moustache shaven off, Iranian media alleged he escaped dressed as a girl.
Whereas a household assertion described Banisadr as somebody who “defended freedoms,” a press release by the Iranian judiciary condemned him as being “beneath the shadow of French and Western intelligence” who “didn’t miss a beat to defame the individuals and the system of the Islamic Republic.”
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