Nayereh Ebtehaj-Samii

Nayereh Ebtehaj-Samii (; 1914–2017) was an Iranian educator and politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.

Biography Ebtehaj-Samii was born in Rasht in 1914. After being educated at a local Presbyterian Missionary school, She studied for a bachelor's degree in the Persian language and later became the first woman to earn a bachelor's degree in English at the University of Tehran. A member of the Women's Council, she became the first president of the Tehran chapter of Zonta International. A founding member of the Iran Novin Party, and was the first woman to serve as Deputy Speaker.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, she withdrew from politics and moved to the United States. However, she later returned to Iran, settling in Bandar-e Anzali, before moving back to Rasht. She died in April 2017 aged 103.