Nezhat Nafisi

Nezhat Nafisi (Persian: نزهت نفیسی, 1920 – 2 January 2003) was an Iranian politician.

In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.

Born in 1920,[1] Nafisi grew up wanting to be a medical doctor, but was not allowed to complete her education.

[2] After her first husband died,[2] she married Ahmad Nafisi, who served as mayor of Tehran from 1961 to 1963.

[3] Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and in the parliamentary elections that year, Nafisi was one of six women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.