Pari Abasalti پری اباصلتی | |
Birth Place: | Tehran, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran) |
Other Names: | Pari Abasalti Mir Hashem |
Education: | University of Tehran |
Occupation: | politician, journalist |
Movement: | Feminist movement |
Known For: | Editor-in-chief of Ettelaat-e Banuvan |
Pari Abasalti (; born 1935 in Tehran) is an Iranian-born American politician and journalist. She was elected to the Iranian National Consultative Assembly in 1975, and was a member of parliament until the Iranian Revolution in 1979, when she left Iran and immigrated to the United States.[1]
She is remembered as editor-in-chief of Ettelaat-e Banuvan, an Iranian women's magazine.[2] While living in the United States she founded the magazine "Rah-e Zendi," which translates to "way of living" that is still running in Los Angeles.[3] [4] [5]