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Hace 1 día · Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president, fled the country in 1981 to save his life and spent the rest of his days in exile, passing away in 2021. Mohammad-Ali Rajai , the next president, and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar , the next prime minister, were both assassinated in a bombing attributed to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) organization in 1981.
Hace 4 días · The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC; Persian: سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelâb-e Eslâmī, lit. 'Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution' ), also called Sepah or Pasdaran, is a multi-service primary branch of the Iranian Armed Forces.
Hace 1 día · In succession the National Democratic Front was banned in August 1979, the provisional government was disempowered in November, the Muslim People's Republican Party banned in January 1980, the People's Mujahedin of Iran guerrillas came under attack in February 1980, a purge of universities was begun in March 1980, and leftist President Abolhassan Banisadr was impeached in June 1981.
Hace 2 días · With the loyalty of the vast majority clearly with the new Islamic government, Bakhtiar resigned on 11 February. The regime had shifted far to the right by the spring of 1981, purging moderate Islamists, including the elected president, Abolhassan Banisadr, and imposing a totalitarian system.
Hace 3 días · On 4 February 1980, Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as the first president of Iran. Critics complain that Khomeini had gone back on his word to advise, rather than rule the country. Hostage crisis
Hace 4 días · A fiery orator in support of Khomeini and an ardent advocate of the concept of velāyat-e faqīh (governance by the religious jurist), Khamenei was among the founding members of the loyalist Islamic Republican Party (IRP). He was injured in 1981 in one of a series of terrorist bombings that devastated the IRP’s upper echelon.
Hace 5 días · And later the moderate, Abolhassan Banisadr, became the Islamic Republic's first president. The two were devout Muslims and advocates of Islamic democracy, human rights, and social...
