The first woman to be executed in Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini after the 1979 Islamic Revolution was Dr. Farrokh Parsa, the Iranian Minister of Education.
Dr. Parsa, a 63-year-old mother of two, was shot dead by firing squad and her body was paraded through the streets of Iran, wrapped in a white sheet.
She was Iran's first female minister and a major force behind women's suffrage in Iran.
Before her death, during a brief period of imprisonment, she wrote a letter in which she said —
“I am ready to embrace my death with open arms rather than live in shame under a forced veil.
I refuse to bow to those who are trying to deny my efforts of the last 50 years to achieve equal rights for men and women.
I will not go back in history.”
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