Tehran [Iran] : Iran’s first President Abolhassan Banisadr died Saturday at the age of 88, according to Iranian state media.
After the 1979 revolution in Iran, Banisadr, a politician and economist, was elected as the country’s first president on January 25, 1980. The 1979 revolution transformed the U.S.-backed and monarch-ruled country into a republic under Islamic ideology.
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