Abolhassan Banisadr obituary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : When, after the shah's departure, Khomeini returned on the Air France jet in dramatic triumph to Tehran in February 1979, Banisadr was with him.
51% : Iran, the Revolution and Secret Deals With the US (1991), Khomeini "had kept talking about liberation and freedom of speech, but from that moment, he was purely in pursuit of power."
48% : Writer and politician who became Iran's first president after the 1979 revolutionAbolhassan Banisadr, who has died aged 88, was a thoughtful, French-educated, Islamic intellectual who accepted the presidency of Iran in 1980 despite his opposition to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's concept of the velayat-e faqih ("governorship of the Islamist jurist") - effectively Islamic dictatorship.
42% : He went into hiding, protected by the People's Mujahedin of Iran or MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq) and the Kurdish Democratic party.
36% : After leaving Iran in 1981,Banisadr lived in Versailles for the rest of his life, under police guard after being targeted by suspected Iranian assassins.
35% : Banisadr spent much time at the front to be absent from conflict in Tehran but this strengthened his enemies there.

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