Iran's first president Abolhassan Banisadr dies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : A practising Muslim, at the age of 17 he became active in the ranks of the National Front of Iran, the movement of nationalist leader Mohammad Mossadegh.
50% : "We would like to inform the honourable people of Iran and all the activists of independence and freedom that...
50% : The man at times referred to as "Khomeini's spiritual son" was elected president of the Islamic Republic of Iran on January 26, 1980.
49% : On February 1, 1979, Banisadr was on the plane that brought Khomeini back to Iran.
49% : After hiding for a week, he was smuggled onto an air force jetliner hijacked by one of his supporters, and escaped to France, where he was granted asylum and provided with police protection.
43% : "He was president for a very short time, then he left for France," said a 40-year-old worker in Tehran, who declined to be identified.
42% : Once in exile, Banisadr founded the National Council of Resistance of Iran with Massoud Rajavi, leader of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran and representatives from minority communities such as Iranian Kurds.
38% : Wanted by the police, he was forced to flee Iran in 1963 and settled in Paris.
37% : TEHRAN -- Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday aged 88, after decades of exile in France following his dismissal by parliament.

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