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Photos of Eminent Iranian Women on Tehran Billboards

Tehran Municipality is displaying the portraits of a number of prominent Iranian women on billboards across the capital.

The billboards have been erected to pay tribute to those Iranian women who have played a role in the development of the Iranian society.

The move is part of a larger plan to mark Women’s Day in the Iranian calendar year, which fell on March 9 this year.

What follows are photos of some of these eminent women whose portraits are being displayed on Tehran billboards:

Ālenush Teriān – Mother of modern Iranian astronomy
Zahra Nemati – First Iranian woman who won a gold medal at Paralympic games
Iran Darroudi – Mother of modern Iranian painting
Tahereh Saffarzadeh – Poet, first translator of bilingual Quran in Persian and English
Kimia Alizadeh – First Iranian woman who won an Olympic medal
Mahboubeh Danesh – First female martyr of the Islamic Revolution
Shahla Riahi – First Iranian female filmmaker
Touran Mirhadi – Mother of children’s literature in Iran
Fakhroddoleh – First person who promoted use of taxi in Iran
Maryam Mirzakhani – Math genius and first woman who was awarded highest math award ‘The Field Medal’
Simin Daneshvar – Mother of Iran’s contemporary fiction
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