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.Programme of Oral History Foundation for Iranian Studies After being educated at a local Presbyterian Missionary school, she attended the American Missionary School in Tehran.Shireen Burki (2013) The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, p217 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.مروری بر حیات سیاسی و اجتماعی زنان نمايندۀ دوره بيست و يكم همایش تاریخ مجلس به روایت تصویرنظری بر زندگی نیره سمیعی ابتهاج- سید ابراهیم مروجی A member of the Women's Council, she became the first president of the Tehran chapter of Zonta International.
Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and in the parliamentary elections that year, Ebtehaj-Samii was one of six women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.Lois Beck & Guity Nashat (2004) Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic, p141 A founding member of the Iran Novin Party, she was re-elected in 1967 and 1971. After joining the Rastakhiz Party, she was re-elected again in 1975,نیره ابتهاج سمیعی Majlis Research Centre 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.
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