Nazanin Armanian (Persian: نازنین ارمنیان) (Shiraz, 21 January 1961) is an Iranian writer and political scientist, exiled in Spain since 1983.

[2] From 2007 to 2012 she was also a professor of Islamic affairs in complementary courses at the University of Barcelona.

In her articles, books and conferences she demystifies the situation of women in the Arab-Muslim world and denounces the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.

Until 1978, Iranian women had more rights than Spanish women, but since the Islamic revolution their rights have been cut, recalls Armanian, who is particularly critical of the revolution in Iran, the country from which she was exiled when she was 20 years old, when the country fell into the hands of the ayatollahs who replaced the shah's government.

She maintains a weekly column in her blog Punto y Seguido in the Spanish newspaper Público.