constituency religion birth_place birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
zanjan and tarom -lrb- electoral district -rrb- shia islam zanjan , iran 1958 member of islamic consultative assembly 2004 rafat bayat
 2008 fa رفعت بیات
rafat bayat

rafat bayat -lrb- in persian : رفعت بیات -rrb- is an iranian politician and former parliament member .
she was denied candidacy for both the 9th iranian presidential election and the 10th iranian presidential election by the guardian council .
bayat studied sociology and belongs to the conservative party .
if allowed to run , she would have been the first woman to contest the presidency since the 1979 islamic revolution .
