Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar

Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, (Persian: پروانه‌ی اسکندری فروهر, (born Parvaneh Majd Eskandari, 1938 - 22 November 1998) was an Iranian dissident and activist who was murdered during the Chain murders of Iran in November 1998. Dariush Forouhar's wife, she became a member of the Party of the Iranian Nation when she was a student, launching anti-Shah campaign shoulder to shoulder with Dariush Forouhar. After a while they got married. Their witness in absentia was Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh and the clergyman marrying the couple was Ayatollah Zanjani. Parvaneh Majd Eskandari was stabbed 25 times on the second floor of her home while she was very ill. She was 60 years old at the time of her death. They are survived by a daughter, Parastou and a...