Ozra Hosseini
Ozra Hosseini | |
|---|---|
عذرا حسینی | |
| Spouse of the President of Iran | |
| In role 4 February 1980 – 21 June 1981 | |
| President | Abolhassan Banisadr |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Ateghe Sediqi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hamadan, Imperial State of Persia |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
Ozra Hosseini (Persian: عذرا حسینی) is the widow of Abolhassan Banisadr, who was the President of Iran from February 1980 until his impeachment by parliament in June 1981.[1]
Biography
[edit]Hosseini was born in Hamadan, Iran.[2] In 1961, while she was about to graduate high school she married Abolhassan Banisadr, the son of her family's neighbor.[2][3] They had two daughters and one son.[4] She was not as politically active as her husband.[4] In his memoirs, Ali Jannati recounted Mohammad Montazeri heavily criticizing her for appearing without hijab during a meeting between him, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and her husband.[4][5] Banisadr was recorded to have stated that he would not force his wife to adhere to a certain type of hijab.[2][6] Rafsanjani later used the incident as an excuse to question Banisadr's suitability for presidency but his concerns were dismissed by the then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.[4] Following Banisadr's impeachment, Hosseini was arrested by the Islamic Revolution Committees but was released after an intervention by Mohammad Beheshti.[4]
Beginning in 1981, Banisadr and Hosseini lived in Versailles, near Paris, in a villa closely guarded by French police.[7][8] Their daughter, Firouzé, married Massoud Rajavi in Paris following their exile.[9][10][11] They later divorced, and the alliance between Banisadr and Rajavi also ended.[9][10]
Hosseini was widowed after Banisadr's death in October 2021 following a long illness.[12][13][14]
References
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- ^ a b c "ماجرای حضور بی‌حجاب همسر بنی‌صدر مقابل آیت الله هاشمی". Donya-e-Eqtesad (in Persian). 9 October 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "تصویر کارت عروسی بنی‌صدر در سال ۵۳ +عکس منتشرنشده". Ettela'at (in Persian). 29 April 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
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- ^ "واکنش رفسنجانی به لباس نامناسب همسر بنی‌صدر". Tabnak (in Persian). 5 October 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "همسر ابولحسن بنی صدر که بود؟". Eghtesad News (in Persian). 9 October 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Former Iran president says Khamenei behind election "fraud"". WashingtonTV. 7 July 2009. Archived from the original on 28 July 2009. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
- ^ Abolhassan Banisadr (3 July 2009). "The Regime Cares Nothing about Human Rights". Die Welt / Qantara. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
- ^ a b Sreberny-Mohammadi, Annabelle; Ali Mohammadi (January 1987). "Post-Revolutionary Iranian Exiles: A Study in Impotence". Third World Quarterly. 9 (1): 108–129. doi:10.1080/01436598708419964. JSTOR 3991849.
- ^ a b Irani, Bahar (19 February 2011). "Indispensability of Examining Sexual Abuses within the Cult of Rajavi". Habilian Association. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ^ Smith, Craig S. (24 September 2005). "Exiled Iranians Try to Foment Revolution From France". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ^ "ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر درگذشت". BBC News فارسی.
- ^ "Family, Iranian state media say Iran's first president, Abolhassan Banisadr, dies in Paris from long illness at age 88". ABC News. 9 October 2021.
- ^ "Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris". Reuters. 9 October 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2021.