monarch death_date birth_date term_end death_place profession term_start spouse image name caption predecessor birth_place party office successor religion primeminister article_title
mohammad-reza shah mohammad-reza shah 8 may 1980 22 march 1922 2 january 1971 27 august 1968 tehran , iran physician , politician 27 august 1968 9 august 1950 ahmad death -rrb- shirin sokhan -lrb- 1950 -- 1980 , her farrokhroo parsay.jpg farrokhroo parsa parsa in official ministerial regalia parviz natel-khanlari qom , persia rastakhiz party minister of iran of education of iran deputy minister of education manouchehr ganji islam amir abbas hoveida amir abbas hoveida farrokhroo parsa

farrokhroo parsa

farokhroo parsa , -lrb- 22 march 1922 -- 8 may 1980 -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- 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 .
parsa was an outspoken supporter of women 's rights in iran .
she was executed by firing squad on 8 may 1980 after the islamists came to power in iran , on religious-revolutionary charges .
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 . ''
