Ozra Banisadr

Ozra Hosseini is the widow of Abolhassan Banisadr, who was the President of Iran from February 1980 until his impeachment by parliament in June 1981.

Biography Hosseini was born in Hamadan, Iran. In 1961, while she was about to graduate high school she married Abolhassan Banisadr, the son of her family's neighbor. They had two daughters and one son. She was not as politically active as her husband. Banisadr was recorded to have stated that he would not force his wife to adhere to a certain type of hijab. Rafsanjani later used the incident as an excuse to question Banisadr's suitability for presidency but his concerns were dismissed by the then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.

Beginning in 1981, Banisadr and Hosseini lived in Versailles, near Paris, in a villa closely guarded by French police. Their daughter, Firouzé, married Massoud Rajavi in Paris following their exile. They later divorced, and the alliance between Banisadr and Rajavi also ended.

Hosseini was widowed after Banisadr's death in October 2021 following a long illness.