Shahla Habibi | |
Office: | Head of Office of Women's Affairs |
President: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
Term Start: | 28 December 1991 |
Term End: | 18 October 1997 |
Predecessor: | Office created |
Successor: | Zahra Shojaei |
Birth Date: | 1958 |
Birth Place: | Kermanshah, Iran |
Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
Shahla Habibi (1958—6 September 2017) was Iran's Presidential Advisor on Women's Affairs from 1991 to 1997.[1] She was former member of central council of Islamic Coalition Party.[2]
In 28 December 1991, President Rafsanjani appointed Shahla Habibi as Iran's Presidential Advisor on Women's Affairs.
Shahla Habibi's position would later become a cabinet position under President Khatami. This post was later held by Zahra Shojaei under President Khatami, and by Nasrin Soltankhah during President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Women's News Agency (IWNA) was created in the 1990s to meet the information needs of Iranian women. She became the IWNA Director.