The former Ayatollah Khomeini close to, who was deposed in 1981, had been living in exile in France.
Le Monde
The first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Abolhassan Bani Sadr, died Saturday in Paris at the age of 88 years, announced the official Iranian news agency, IRNA. He died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière, “following a long illness.”
Born in 1933 in Hamadan, southwest of Tehran, the Imam son was part of the opposition to the Shah’s regime in Iran, which earned him a first exile in France in 1963. It ‘ there he met Imam Khomeini, expelled from Iran in 1978, where he became a close advisor. At the fall of Shah of Iran, in February 1979, the two men back together in Tehran
Abolhassan Banisadr became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on 28 January 1980 after being elected with 75% of votes. But this moderate politician opposes the most radical religious and released by Khomeini, he eventually be removed seventeen months later by the Iranian Parliament and having to leave his country.
political refugee in France since 1981, Mr. Bani Sadr lived in Versailles, near Paris, in May 1984, under constant police protection, after residing in Auvers-sur-Oise and Cachan, two other towns near Paris .