On this day, 28 years ago, August 23, 1997 (July 21, 1997 in the lunar calendar), Khatami appointed Iran's first female vice president. On August 23, 1997, Iranian President Khatami officially appointed 36-year-old Massume-Ebtekar as Iranian Vice President responsible for environmental protection affairs. This is Iran's first female vice president since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Ebtkar studied in the United States in his early years and obtained a doctorate in immunology. He is now a professor at the University of Tehran in Iran. She served as executive chairman of the Iranian Women's Organization and attended the Fourth World Conference on Women held in my country in 1995 as deputy head of the Iranian delegation. On February 21, 2005, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan of the State Council of China, who was attending a meeting of the United Nations Environment Program and the China-Africa Environmental Cooperation Conference in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, met with Iranian Vice President Ebtekar.