Fakhrossadat Mohtashamipour

Fakhrossadat Mohtashamipour (Persian: فخرالسادات محتشمی‌پور) is an Iranian reformist activist.

Fakhrossadat Mohtashamipour
NationalityIranian
Political partyIslamic Iran Participation Front
MovementIslamic feminism[1]
Spouse
(m. 1980)
[2]
Children2
Relatives

She served as the head of women's affairs at the Ministry of Interior.[3]

Along with Azar Mansouri and late Farideh Mashini, she is among the senior women members of Islamic Iran Participation Front and pioneers of Iranian NGOs working for women's rights.[4] She is executive manager of the NGO Association of Women Entrepreneurs and chair of the board of directors of the Association of History and Women Researchers.[1]

References

  1. Povey, Tara (2016). Social Movements in Egypt and Iran. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 9781137379009.
  2. "Patriots and Reformists: Behzad Nabavi and Mostafa Tajzadeh". Tehran Bureau. PBS. August 11, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  3. Miranda Eeles (19 February 2004), "Iran's disappointed women", BBC, retrieved 28 January 2017
  4. Mohammadighalehtaki, Ariabarzan (2012). Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat) (Ph.D. thesis). Durham University. p. 204.


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