Abolhassan Banisadr

Abolhassan Banisadr (Persian: ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر;born March 22, 1933) was the first elected President of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (511x758, 13 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Abolhassan Banisadr User:Edward/Images ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (511x758, 13 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Abolhassan Banisadr User:Edward/Images ... Persian, also called Farsi or Parsi, is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, Tajikistan and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in leap years). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The President of Iran holds a very important office in Irans political establishment. ... Protestors take to the street in support of Ayatollah Khomeini. ...

Banisadr had participated in the anti-Shah student movement during the early 1960s, was imprisoned twice, and was wounded during an uprising in 1963. He then fled to France and joined the Iranian resistance group led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Banisadr returned to Iran together with Khomeini as the revolution was beginning in February 1979. He was the deputy economy and finance minister and acting foreign minister briefly during 1979, and the finance minister from 1979 to 1980. Shah is an Iranian & Pakistani/Indian term in Persian language & Urdu (شاه), for a monarch (king or emperor), and has also been adopted in many other languages. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political... This page refers to the year 1979. ... A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the governmental foreign policy of a sovereign nation. ... The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

He was elected President in early 1980, when he ran in a competitive election against Ahmad Madani, Hassan Habibi, Sadegh Tabatabaee, Dariush Forouhar, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Kazem Sami, Mohammad Makri, Hassan Ghafourifard, and Hassan Ayat. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (in Persian: حسن ابراهیم حبیبی) (born 1937?) is an Iranian politician and scholar, presently the Head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature (from October 11, 2004, for four years), and a member of the High Council of Cultural Revolution. ... Dariush Forouhar (1928-1998) was the leader of the Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran (Nation of Iran Party), a pan-Iranist opposition party in Iran which he founded in 1951. ... Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (صادق قطب‌زاده;‎ 1936–September 15, 1982) was Iranian Foreign Minister (November 30, 1979–August, 1980) during Iran hostage crisis. ...

Banisadr was not an Islamic cleric: Ayatollah Khomeini had insisted that clerics should not run for positions in the government. In August and September, 1980, Banisadr survived two helicopter crashes near the Iranian border with Iraq. The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, Helicopters are classified as rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from conventional fixed-wing aircraft. ...

Banisadr soon fell out with Ayatollah Khomeini - first because of his opposition to the execution of dissidents; second because Banisadr wrote to Khomeini many times warning against dictatorship; and third because Banisadr's popularity was rising because -after 6 months of war which started because Saddam Hussein invaded Iran using Iraqi armies- Iraq and some of the other Persian Gulf regional States had agreed to pay reparations to Iran, about $60 Billion and agreed to all other Iranian terms for stopping the war. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani argued that if they let Banisadr finish the war, he would sit on his tank, and march to Tehran, and not even Khomeini would be able to touch him. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: , [1]; born April 28, 1937[2]), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003, when he was deposed during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. ... Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی), born Hashemi Bahramani (هاشمی بهرمانی) on August 25, 1934, is an influential Iranian politician, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. ...

So, falsley accusing Banisadr of a weak performance in leading Iranian troops in the Iran-Iraq War, Khomeini stripped the Presidency from holding the power of Commander-in-Chief and instead assigned it to his own office on June 10, 1981. League, and the UN, without any success. ... Commander-in-Chief (in NATO-lingo often C-in-C or CINC pronounced sink) is the commander of all the military forces within a particular region or of all the military forces of a state. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Banisadr was impeached on June 21, 1981 by the Majlis (the Iranian Parliament), allegedly because of his moves against the clerics in power, most specifically the sadistic Mohammad Beheshti, the head of the judicial system at the time. Ayatollah Khomeini appears to have instigated the Impeachment, which he signed the next day, on June 22. Even before Ayatollah Khomeini had signed the Impeachment papers, the Pasdaran had seized the Presidential buildings and gardens and imprisoned newspaper writers which worked for a newspaper closely tied to Mr. Banisadr. In the next few days they also executed several of his closest friends, including Mr. Hossein Navab, Rashid Sadrolhefazi, and Manouchehr Massoudi. It was revealed later that the group of guards who were assigned to capture Mr. Banisadr were told to finish him off rather than get him to jail. However, President Abolhassan Banisadr managed to flee the country and escaped to France along with Masoud Radjavi, former leader of the Mojahedin, where (as of 2005) he still lives, and has published many articles about Iran. Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mohammad Beheshti Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti (محمد حسینی بهشتی in Persian), (October 24, 1928 - June 28, 1981) was an Iranian cleric, the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic party, and the head of the Islamic Republics judicial system. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (Persian: سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی - Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enghelab-e Islami), often shortened to Revolutionary Guards, or called by its Persian name Sepah or Pasdaran, is a military organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Abolhassan Banisadr's Persian website
• Iran Media Resources

Presidents of Iran
Banisadr | Rajai | Khamenei | Rasfanjani | Khatami | Ahmadinejad