Effat Marashi | |
Native Name: | عفت مرعشی |
Birth Place: | Kerman, Imperial State of Iran |
Office: | Spouse of the president of Iran |
President: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
Term Label: | In role |
Term Start: | 16 August 1989 |
Term End: | 3 August 1997 |
Predecessor: | Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh |
Successor: | Zohreh Sadeghi |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Effat Marashi (fa|عفت مرعشی; born 1935) is the widow of Iranian politician and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.[1]
In 2009, during election protests she was quoted as saying: "If people see that [the government] has cheated, they should protest on the streets".
Marashi married Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1958. The couple had 5 children: Fatemeh, Mohsen, Faezeh, Mehdi, and Yasser.[2]