Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Former Iranian President, Dies at 88

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : A newspaper connected to Mr. Bani-Sadr was the only one in Iran to publish it.
52% : When signing copies of his memoir, he often added the line, "Elected President of the People of Iran."
51% : He sought to revive Mr. Mossadegh's political bloc, the National Front, and infuse it with moderate Islam to create a new form of government for Iran.
48% : Mr. Bani-Sadr was born on March 22, 1933, into a family of pious landowners in Hamadan, Iran, said to be one of the world's oldest towns.
46% : In fact, you have made Iran the hostage of the Americans."
44% : Militants stormed the United States embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979.
40% : Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran tried and failed to resist the currents of religious radicalism, died on Saturday at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
40% : "His tragedy sums up the tragedy of lay intellectuals who thought they could harness religion to nationalism."
39% : Several months later, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Mansour Farhang, resigned in protest of his government's failure to end the crisis and wrote a long article condemning the takeover.
32% : In one of the 20th century's most spectacular political collapses, the shah fled Iran on Jan. 16, 1979.
28% : Ten months later, Saddam Hussein's army invaded Iran, setting off the horrific Iran-Iraq war.

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