[custom_adv] Azam Taleghani (1943 – 30 October 2019) was a politician and journalist who was the head of the Society of Islamic Revolution Women, editor of Payam Hajar Weekly, and a member of the parliament. [custom_adv] Taleghani was the daughter of Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani. She served time in prison during the Pahlavi regime. After the Revolution she was a member of the parliament, founded "Jame'e Zanan Mosalman" (Society of Muslim women), and published Payam e Hajar Weekly, an Islamic journal about women and women's rights. [custom_adv] In 2003 she protested against the death of Zahra Kazemi. Both in 2001 and 2009, Taleghani submitted her candidacy for presidential elections, but, like all women's candidacies, her candidacy was rejected Guardian Council . [custom_adv] Mahmoud Taleghani (5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was a theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a cleric. [custom_adv] Taleghani was a contemporary of the Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. [custom_adv] A founding member of the Freedom Movement, he has been described as a representative of the tendency of many "Shia clerics to blend Shia with Marxist ideals in order to compete with leftist movements for youthful supporters" during the 1960s and 1970s. [custom_adv] His "greatest influence" has been said to have been in "his teaching of Quranic exegesis," as many later revolutionaries were his students. [custom_adv] Azam Taleghani (1943 – 30 October 2019) was a politician and journalist who was the head of the Society of Islamic Revolution Women, editor of Payam Hajar Weekly, and a member of the parliament. [custom_adv] Taleghani was the daughter of Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani. She served time in prison during the Pahlavi regime. After the Revolution she was a member of the parliament, founded "Jame'e Zanan Mosalman" (Society of Muslim women), and published Payam e Hajar Weekly, an Islamic journal about women and women's rights. [custom_adv] In 2003 she protested against the death of Zahra Kazemi. Both in 2001 and 2009, Taleghani submitted her candidacy for presidential elections, but, like all women's candidacies, her candidacy was rejected Guardian Council .
