Shahindokht Molaverdi

Shahindokht Molaverdi (; born 23 October 1965) is an Iranian academic, feminist, jurist, scholar, and former vice president of Iran and aide to the President of Iran.

Early life Molaverdi was born 23 October 1965 in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province in Iran.

Between 2017 and 2021 she worked as the director of International Affairs at the Center for Women and Family Participation, and subsequently ran her own Tehran law office.

In Rouhani's second cabinet (2017–2021), Molaverdi became his special assistant for citizenship rights.

Political issues that Molaverdi spoke on included her being against child marriage (as five per cent of Iranian girls are married between the ages of nine and fifteen), the sale of unborn babies, against the Iranian law that forbids a wife from leaving Iran without her husband’s permission, and in favor of women being allowed into sports stadiums. In 2023, according to a concurrent resolution passed overwhelmingly with 420 "yea" votes in the 118th Congress of the United States, "Shahindokht Molaverdi ... was charged with encouraging 'corruption, prostitution, and sexual deviance', a common charge against women refusing mandatory hijab laws, and sentenced in December 2020 to 30 months in prison for defending the right of women to attend sporting events and criticizing the practice of child marriage."

She was never imprisoned. Molaverdi appealed, and was acquitted of all charges in 2022.