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Banisadr, Iran's first president after
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 10/10/2021 9:48:51 AM

TEHRAN, Iran — 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 became a theocracy, died Saturday. He was 88. Among a sea of black-robed Shiite clerics, Banisadr stood out for his Western-style suits and a background so French that it was in philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that he confided his belief he'd be Iran’s first president some 15 years before it happened. Those differences only isolated him as the nationalist sought to implement a socialist style economy in Iran underpinned by a

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If you remember the Iran hostage crisis you will probably remember this wormy man.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MDConservative 10/10/2021 10:03:11 AM (No. 940792)
Where do I send a sympathy card...? Another opportunist with a vision of importance.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Birddog 10/10/2021 10:42:26 AM (No. 940830)
He was the "Chosen One" by socialists in Europe as well as the US to step in when the Shah was backstabbed, kneecapped and removed by them. Nearly all of these failed "Chosen" socialist "Modern Leaders" artificially created and put into place seem to have spent a good bit of their lives in France, just as the WORST places in the world are all former French colonies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: udanja99 10/10/2021 12:32:36 PM (No. 940970)
Send Carter to the funeral. After all, without Carter, this man would never have been president.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LoneVoice 10/10/2021 1:01:20 PM (No. 941017)
That's so sad about his death. /sarcasm At least he's in a place where he can have 3rd degree burns for eternity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Geoman 10/10/2021 1:06:33 PM (No. 941027)
During the Iran hostage crisis, I remember Banisadr as being perhaps the most reasonable of the young "leaders"of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Compare him to GotIn fact, in 1981, he was "impeached" for his efforts against the radical clerics in power within the government. Compared to fellow revolutionary and Foreign MInister of the revolutionary government, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Banisadr seemed more intelligent, reasonable, and willing to cut a deal with the U. S. to keep our post-Carter administration from wiping them out. He was most likely responsible for Iran quickly capitulating on releasing our fellow Americans immediately after of Reagan as president and just before his inauguration. Ghotbzadeh wound up being executed for trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 10/10/2021 5:04:57 PM (No. 941212)
Now he's a good Iranian leader.
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