Farideh Hashemi ( fa, فریده هاشمی; born 1939) is an Iranian politician who served in the

Iranian Parliament The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The P ...

from 1975 until 1979. A member of the

Rastakhiz Party The Party of Resurrection of the Iranian Nation ( fa, حزب رستاخیز ملت ایران) or simply Rastakhiz Party ( fa, حزب رستاخیز, Ḥezb-e Rastāḵiz, lit=Resurgence/Resurrection Party) was Iran's single legal political party ...

, she represented the city of Sarab.

Biography

Farideh Hashemi was born in 1939 in Iran. Her father was named Abu Talib. She was employed by the Ministry of Culture and Arts as a middle school principal in the city of Sarab in

East Azerbaijan East Azerbaijan Province ( fa, استان آذربایجان شرقی ''Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi''; az-Arab, شرقی آذربایجان اوستانی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia ...

. Hashemi ran for the

in the 1975 Iranian general election as a member of the

, the sole legal party. She was elected in the Sarab constituency, receiving 9,996 votes. Hashemi served in parliament until the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

in 1979. Following the revolution, her property was seized by the new government.

References

1939 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) People from Sarab, East Azerbaijan 20th-century Iranian educators Iranian women educators Members of the 24th Iranian Majlis 20th-century Iranian women politicians Rastakhiz Party politicians {{Iran-politician-stub