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By bne Tehran bureau Farzaneh Sadegh, the only female minister proposed by Iran’s new President, Masoud Pezeshkian, will be the second woman in a ministerial post in the history of the Islamic Republic if approved by the parliament. Still, the question stands as to whether she will be permitted to carry the heavy portfolio amid growing opposition from ultra-misogynists. During the Shah’s regime, Iran had two female ministers in charge of education and women’s affairs. Following the revolution, it wasn’t until the Ahmadinejad era that Iran saw its first female minister, when Marzieh Vahid Dastj…

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