Farrokhroo Parsa (1922 – 1980) was a physician, educator and parliamentarian.She served as Minister of Education of homeland under Amir Abbas Hoveida and was the first female cabinet minister of a persian government. She was an outspoken supporter of women’s rights in homeland.
Farrokhroo Parsa was executed by firing squad on 8 May 1980 in capital,at the outset of the Islamic Cultural Revolution.Board of Governors of Association of Patriotic Women , capital, 1922–1932. The woman on the far left is FakhrAfagh Parsa, mother of Farrokhroo Parsa.
