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Zahra Rahnavard (Zohreh Kazemi) was born on 19 August, 1945 in Borujerd, Iran, is an Iranian academic and politician. Discover Zahra Rahnavard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Zohreh Kazemi
Occupation Academic
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 19 August 1945
Birthday 19 August
Birthplace Borujerd, Iran
Nationality Iran

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Her husband is Mir-Hossein Mousavi

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Zahra Rahnavard Net Worth

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1945

Zahra Rahnavard (born Zohreh Kazemi; 19 August 1945) is an Iranian academic, artist and politician.

1969

She and Mousavi married on 18 September 1969.

They are currently under house arrest.

1979

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.

1989

As the head of the Women's Social and Cultural Council, established in 1989 as one of seven government committees exploring various social issues, Rahnavard has called for these committees to be more equally represented by women members and has been an outspoken critic of the government's failure to accord women what, in her opinion, are their legitimate social and civil rights under the Qu’ran.

1998

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.

2005

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.

2009

In 2009, Foreign Policy magazine named her one of the world's most distinguished thinkers.

She is the wife of former Iran Prime Minister Mir Hussein Musavi.

In part of her work, she has underlined the need for men to respect the laws of the hijab in the same way as women, as well as a general activist for women's rights in the Middle East.

Rahnavard was born in Boroojerd, Iran.

Her father Haj-Fathali, was a 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.

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.

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.

Rahnavard along with former President Rouhani and Mr. Mir-Hossein Mousavi proposed and pioneered the mandatory Hijab, which went into effect shortly after the revolution.

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 one of the Opposition's Leaders.

Rahnavard is also the author of 15 books.

Rahnavard is the wife of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister of Iran and had three daughters: Kokab, Narges and Zahra.

2011

Rahnavard is a university professor, artist, and intellectual who was under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018.