Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled

29 2019, former Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr speaks during an interview with the

The family would like him to be buried in Versailles, the Paris suburb where he lived during his exile, his longstanding assistant, Jamaledin Paknejad, told Reuters by telephone.In an interview with Reuters in 2019, the former president said that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had betrayed the principles of the revolution after sweeping to power in 1979, adding this had left a" very bitter" taste among some of those who had returned with Khomeini to Tehran in triumph. Bani-Sadr recalled in that int

A worker leans against a gasoline pump that has been turned off, at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, on Oct.... However, they suggested that he and others in the theocracy believe anti-Iranian forces carried out an assault likely designed to inflame the country as the second anniversary of a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests over gasoline prices approaches.... No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that began Tuesday, though it bore similarities to another months earlier that s