Maryam Rajavi, leader of Iran’s opposition, Speaking to the Paris conference, “Mullahs’ Regime in Crises
MARYAM RAJAVI Madam Maryam Rajavi is the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI). She has dedicated her life to restore democracy and freedom in Iran. Ms. Rajavi was born on December 4, 1953, in Tehran. She earned a B.S. Degree in Metallurgy from the Sharif University of Technology. She helped organize the student movement against the Shah while attending the university. Ms. Rajavi’s older sister, Massoumeh, was executed by Shah’s regime. Her younger sister, Massoumeh, was wounded and detained when Revolutionary Guards attacked her home in Tehran in 1981. She was tortured to death while pregnant. Her husband was also killed. Ms. Rajavi joined the PMOI after the revolution, working as a social section official. She ran for a seat in the first Majlis (parliament) in February 1980, but the mullahs prevented her from winning by manipulating the voting, as they did with all of the PMOI candidates. Ms. Rajavi fled Iran and beca...