Zahra Rahnavard

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Zahra Rahnavard زهرا رهنورد

Born	(1945-10-31) 31 October 1945 (age 67) Borujerd, Iran
Residence	Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Occupation	Former Chancellor of Alzahra University
Religion	Islam
Spouse(s)	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Children	Kokab, Narges and Zahra

Zahra Rahnavard (Persian: زهرا رهنورد‎; born Zohreh Kazemi; 31 October 1945) is an Iranian artist and politician.^[1]

Early life

Rahnavard was born in Borujerd, Iran. Her father Haj-Fathali was a Fundamentalist Sh'ia and anti-Communist. After hearing of a gathering of Sh'ia clerics in Iran, Haj-Fathali emigrated to Khomein, Markazi Province where Zahra was raised.^{[citation needed]} Zahra Rahnavard earned her bachelor and master's degrees in art and architecture from University of Tehran. She also has master's and PhD degrees from Islamic Azad University in Political science.^[2] Rahnavard was among the early revolutionaries against the Shah. In the last years of the Shah, she was close to Ali Shariati, a dissident Islamist leader.^[3]

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Political life

Zahra Rahnavard in 2009

Rahnavard served as the Chancellor of Alzahra University in Tehran from 1998 to 2006, and as a Political Adviser to the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.^[4]^[5] Rahnavard was the first Iranian woman appointed as a chancellor of a university since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. She was nominated to this post by former Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mostafa Moin.^[6] After the election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005 and the purging of reformist officials from the government, Rahnavard was removed or resigned from her position as the Chancellor of Al-zahra University in 2006, replaced by Mahboubeh Mobasheri.

She was an active member of her husband Mir-Hossein Mousavi's campaign when Mousavi entered the 2009 presidential election. Now she is a member of The Green Path of Hope and is one of the Leaders of Opposition. Rahnavard is also the author of 15 books.

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Personal life

Rahnavard is the wife of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister of Iran and had three daughters: Kokab, Narges and Zahra. She and Mousavi married on 18 September 1969.

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References

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^ "Zahra Rahnavard - O Magazine 2010 Power List". Oprah. 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
^ "بیوگرافی زهرا رهنورد". Yazd Farda. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
^ Alavi, Nasrin (2 June 2009). "Iran: a blind leap of faith". Open Democracy. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
^ Torfeh, Massoumeh (5 May 2009). "Iran's first first lady?". The Guardian (London).
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^ "Zahra Rahnavard named university chancellor in Tehran". 23 September 1998. Retrieved 25 November 2012.

Academic offices
Preceded by None	Chancellor of Alzahra University 1998–2006	Succeeded by Mahboubeh Mobasheri

v t e Iranian Green Movement

Events	2009–2010 Iranian election protests Timeline 2009 Iran poll protests trial 2009 Iranian university dormitory raids Death of Neda Agha-Soltan Death of Sohrab Aarabi Death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani The Green Scroll Campaign Iranian Hostage Crisis Death of Ayatollah Montazeri 2009 Ashura protests Death of Seyed Ali Mousavi Death of Mohammad Mokhtari February 2011 protests in Iran Death of Sane Jaleh Death of Mohammad Mokhtari Death of Haleh Sahabi Death of Hoda Saber

Leaders	Mir-Hossein Mousavi Mehdi Karroubi Mohammad Khatami

Supporters	Zahra Rahnavard Hussein-Ali Montazeri Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Hadi Khamenei Mohsen Sazegara Mohammad Reza Khatami Mohsen Makhmalbaf Yousef Sane'i Jalal Al-Din Taheri Shirin Ebadi Ezatollah Sahabi Alireza Nourizadeh Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri Hassan Khomeini Abdolkarim Soroush Ebrahim Nabavi Alireza Beheshti Mohsen Kadivar Akbar Ganji Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani Faezeh Hashemi Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Mousavi Ardebili Jafar Panahi

Opponents	Ali Khamenei Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ahmad Khatami Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Ahmad Jannati Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel Ali Larijani Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani Sadeq Larijani

Organization	The Green Path of Hope

Supporter parties	Islamic Iran Participation Front National Trust Party Executives of Construction Party Association of Combatant Clerics Islamic Association of Women Nationalist-Religious movement Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization Office for Strengthening Unity Democracy Party Freedom Movement Islamic Labour Party Solidarity Party

Persondata
Name	Rahnavard, Zahra
Alternative names
Short description	Iranian academic and politician
Date of birth	31 October 1945
Place of birth	Borujerd, Iran
Date of death
Place of death

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