RARE! “First President of Iran" Abolhassan Banisadr Hand Signed 3X5 Card

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Up for auction the "First President of Iran" Abolhassan Banisadr Hand Signed 3X5 Index Card.
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Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr
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Persian
:
سید ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر
‎; born 22 March 1933) is an
Iranian
politician. He was the first
President of Iran
after the 1979
Iranian Revolution
abolished the
monarchy
, serving from 4 February 1980 until he was impeached by
parliament
on 20 June 1981. Prior to his presidency, he was the
minister of foreign affairs
in the
interim government
. He has resided for many years in
France
where he co-founded the
National Council of Resistance of Iran
. At age 85, Banisadr is currently the
oldest living former Iranian President
.
Banisadr was born on 22 March 1933 in
Hamadān
.
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His father was an ayatollah and close to
Ruhollah Khomeini
. He studied finance and economics at the
Sorbonne
. In 1972, Banisadr's father died and he attended the funeral in Iraq where he first met Ayatollah Khomeini. Banisadr had participated in the anti-Shah student movement during the early 1960s and was imprisoned twice, and was wounded during an uprising in 1963. He then fled to France. He later joined the Iranian resistance group led by Khomeini, becoming one of his hard-liner advisors. Banisadr returned to Iran together with Khomeini as the revolution was beginning in February 1979. He wrote a book on Islamic finance,
Eghtesad Tohidi,
which roughly translates as "The Economics of
Monotheism
."