Nayereh Ebtehaj-Samii
Member of the National Consultative Assembly
In office 1963?1979
Constituency	Rasht
Personal details
Born	1914 Rasht , Persia
Died	2017 (aged 103) Rasht , Iran

Nayereh Ebtehaj-Samii ( Persian : ???? ?????? ????? , 1914?2017) was an Iranian educator and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly .

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Ebtehaj-Samii was born in Rasht in 1914. ^[1] After being educated at a local Presbyterian Missionary school, ^[1] she then attended the American Missionary School in Tehran . ^[2] She studied for a bachelor's degree in Persian language and later became the first woman to earn a bachelor's degree in English at the University of Tehran . ^{[3] [4]} A member of the Women's Council, she became the first president of the Tehran chapter of Zonta International . ^[1]

Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and in the parliamentary elections that year, Ebtehaj-Samii was one of six women elected to the National Consultative Assembly. ^[5] A founder member of the Iran Novin Party , ^[1] she was re-elected in 1967 and 1971 . After joining the Rastakhiz Party , she was re-elected again in 1975 , ^[6] and was the first woman to serve as Deputy Speaker.

Following the Iranian Revolution , she withdrew from politics and moved to the United States . However, she later returned to Iran, settling in Bandar-e Anzali , before moving back to Rasht . She died in April 2017 aged 103.

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