Farrokhroo Parsa Politician

Farokhroo Pārsāy, (22 March 1922 – 8 May 1980) (Persian: فرخ‌رو پارسای‎) was an Iranian physician, educator and parliamentarian. She served as Minister of Education of Iran in the last pre-Islamic revolution government and was the first female cabinet minister of an Iranian government.Pārsāy was an outspoken supporter of women's rights in Iran, and was executed by firing squad on 8 May 1980 after the Islamists came to power in Iran, on religious-revolutionary charges stemming from this position. Some journalists, based on informed sources, say that her execution was carried out by putting her in a large bag (gooni) and then hung, the rope got cut off and they did the firing squad . In the early 1960s, she wrote a letter to the Shah requesting the right to vote for women; the late Shah replied, “I will seek my nation’s vote on the matter, my people do not consist only of men.”