Rafat Bayat

Rafat Bayat
رفعت بیات
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
In office 3 May 2004 – 3 May 2008
Constituency	Zanjan and Tarom
Majority	34,851
Personal details
Born	1958 (age 58–59) Zanjan, Iran
Religion	Shia Islam

Rafat Bayat (in Persian: رفعت بیات) is an Iranian politician and former parliament member. She was denied candidacy for both the 9th Iranian presidential election and the 10th Iranian presidential election by the Guardian Council.

Bayat studied sociology and belongs to the conservative party. If allowed to run, she would have been the first woman to contest the presidency since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

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