Bani-Sadr Dies; Iran’s President After Islamic Revolution
- After Shah’s fall, returned to Iran with Ayatollah Khomeini
- He was driven from the country by Islamic fundamentalists
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr circa 1980.
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Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, an economist who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution and fled into exile in France two years later, has died. He was 88.
He died in a hospital in Paris after a long illness, the family said on his website.