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Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr
- Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr (Persian: سید ابوالحسن بنیصدر; 22 March 1933 – 9 October 2021) was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. 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.
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Banisadr was elected to a four-year term as president on 25 January 1980, receiving 78.9 percent of the vote in the election, and was inaugurated on 4 February. Khomeini remained the Supreme Leader of Iran with the constitutional authority to dismiss the president.
Apr 25, 2024 · 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 in 1980. He was the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but served only 18 months. “He was more of a preacher and teacher than a manager of power,” one ...
- Stephen Kinzer
Oct 9, 2021 · Bani-Sadr had emerged from obscurity to become Iran's first president in February 1980 with the help of the Islamic clergy. But after a power struggle with radical clerics he fled the following year to France, where he spent the rest of his life.
Oct 9, 2021 · Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged 88.
Against the wishes of the IRP, Khomeini allowed Bani Sadr to be sworn in as president in January 1980, before the convening of the Majlis. Khomeini further bolstered Bani Sadr's position by appointing him chairman of the Revolutionary Council and delegating to the president his own powers as commander in chief of the armed forces.
Oct 9, 2021 · Banisadr was elected president in January 1980 hot on the heels of the previous year’s Islamic revolution. But he was dismissed by the Iranian parliament in 1981 after he opposed late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Since then, he had been living in exile in France.
