Masoumeh Ebtekar
Iranian politician, spokeswoman during the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis
- Born
- 21 September 1960, Tehran
- Age
- 66
Masoumeh Ebtekar (born 21 September 1960) is an Iranian politician. A Reformist, she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017, after which she served as the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs from 2017 to 2021. Her appointment to the Cabinet of Iran in 1997 marked her as the institution's third female member overall and the first female member since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She is currently a full-time professor in the Immunology Department of the School of Medical Sciences at Tarbiat Modares University in the city of Tehran.
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