Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar
پروانه اسکندری فروهر
1939–1998 · 28 years ago
- Born
- 20 March 1939
- Taken
- 22 November 1998
- Age
- 59 years old
- From
- Tehran, Tehran
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Parvaneh Eskandari was born in Tehran in 1939. She studied at the Faculty of Literature of Tehran University, became a student activist and in 1961 married Dariush Forouhar; they had two children. She was one of the first two women to sit in the congress of the second National Front, worked on the Iran Nation Party's publications and was arrested several times for her politics.
She taught history in high school until 1970, when she was dismissed and banned from teaching after her husband's arrest; after that she worked as an academic counsellor. Her daughter remembers a deeply sensitive, passionate woman who wrote poetry and loved literature, and who stood beside her husband through decades of hardship.
How the regime took them
On 22 November 1998 Parvaneh and Dariush were found stabbed to death in their home in Tehran, killed by agents of the Islamic Republic's Ministry of Intelligence. The ministry later admitted that its own officials were involved but called them 'rogue elements', and no one who gave the order was ever tried. Their daughter, called in to identify the bodies, was not allowed to stay with her parents even for a moment, and papers and writings taken from the house were never returned.
Every year since, their children have tried to hold a memorial in the same house; in a number of years security agents have stopped people from going in. (The Boroumand Center gives her age as 60; her birth date makes it 59.)
