Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies October 08, 2021 at 10:50PM

Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday. He was 88. The family of Banisadr in a statement Saturday said he died at a hospital in Paris after a long illness.