Abolhassan Banisadr

...rejected Khomeini's coup. He was defrocked. Ranking members of Khomeini's entourage - Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and heir designate Hossein-Ali Montazeri -...

In this article: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, Democracy, Anti-Americanism, E mail, Iranian hostage crisis, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, and CIA

...in both the crisis and its end were the Iran Hostage Crisis, the invasion of Iran by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and the presidency of Abolhassan Banisadr. With the fall of the shah, the glue that unified the various ideological (religious,...

In this article: Islamic Republican Party, Islam, Iran, National Democratic Front, MPRP, and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari

...consequently the people, and eventually was deposed in a 1953 CIA-backed coup. Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, was forced to flee the country after he stood against the clerics, including...

In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Islamic, Democracy, Revenue, Unemployment, and God

...who was deposed in 1953 in a CIA-backed coup with the acquiescence of the clergy. The letter also cites the experience of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who was ousted in 1981 and fled the country after he fell out with the Islamic...

In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Detainee, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Acquiescence, RSS Feeds, Neda Agha-Soltan, and Islamic

...released "very, very soon." Iranian authorities have made no comment on her detention. In Vienna, former Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr boldly accused Khamenei -- who has ruled the Islamic republic for 20 years -- of being personally...

In this article: Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Mehdi Karroubi, Mohammad Khatami, and Nicolas Sarkozy

...was bombarded with telephone calls recounting often unverifiable events in Iran from exiles such as Abolhassan Banisadr and Ebrahim Yazdi. Banisadr went on to become Iran's first elected president in 1980 before being dismissed the...

In this article: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, Tehran, Islam, Revenue, Mirhossein Mousavi, Ebrahim Yazdi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and France

Mir-Salim served as the national police chief following the Iranian Revolution. He was proposed by President Abolhassan Banisadr in July 1980 as a candidate for Prime Minister, as a compromise candidate acceptable to both Banisadr...

In this article: Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Minister of Culture, and Islamic Republican Party

...early 1980s. He was a member of the leadership council of the Islamic Republic Party and was one of the architects of the ousting in 1981 of Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the Iranian President, who had fallen out with Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme...

In this article: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mohammad Mossadegh, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Tehran, and London

...by the people. The constitution thus became--and remains--an incongruent mix of despotism and democracy. But the first elected president, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, proved hard for the clergy to manage. It became clear that in spite of many...

In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei, Iran, Mohammad Khatami, Democracy, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, and Abbas Milani

...reason President Jimmy Carter served only one term in office. He has since rebuilt his reputation as an international peace mediator. Abolhassan Bani-Sadr became Iran's first elected president in 1979, but failed to maintain his...

In this article: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, Jimmy Carter, Mohammad Khatami, Tehran, US, Islamic, CIA, and Cancer