Mohtaram Eskandari

She was the co-founder and first leader of Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, the first women's rights association in Persia.

[4] Mohtaram was born in 1895[5] into a liberal, intellectually vibrant and politically active family in Tehran.

[6] She first studied at home with her father and received an education in Persian and French literature under the supervision of Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Mohaqqeqi.

[7][8] As an adult, Eskandari suffered from a spinal cord injury, was teaching for some time, and served as the director of a state school for girls.

In one of the rallies, they burned leaflets against women, which resulted in Mohtaram's arrest by government officials.

[7] Mohtaram Eskandari died at the age of 29 in Tehran in July 1924 – 1925, due to complications from a back surgery she had undergone as a child.

[6] In 1922, the Patriotic Women's Association was established with the esteemed work of Mohtaram Eskandari, Nurolhouda Mangeneh, Mastureh Afshar, and Madam Fakhr Afagh.

[12]Mohtaram Eskandari's name was recorded as the first woman who was arrested in contemporary history for rebellion in Iran.

[15][16] Mohtaram was hospitalized for some time after the arrest and advent of burning the leaflets due to the severity of the illness she had and doctors said surgery should be performed on the vertebral column's.

I just hope that all the women of my homeland do not let the work of this respectable woman go away and that the foundation she had established will not break.