Posted on 04/10/2006 6:08:30 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, shows photographs as she attends a meeting of the liberal group at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, Monday, April 10, 2006. Rajavi came to Strasbourg to discuss about the increasing crisis between the world and the Iranian regime. (AP Photo/ Christian Hartmann)
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"Sometimes a Picture is worth a Thousand Words"
The woman holding the pictures is 1/2 of the head of the terrorist/cult MEK. (her husband is the other 1/2)
She's drumming up support for herself and MEK/NCRI.
Maryam Rajavi was born in 1953 to a middle class family in Tehran. She has a degree in metallurgy from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
Rajavi began her activities during the anti-shah movement in early 1970s, as one of the leaders of the student movement while studying at the University.
The Shah's regime executed one of her sisters, Narges, and the Khomeini regime murdered another, Massoumeh, who died under torture in 1982 while eight months pregnant. Massoumeh's husband, Massoud Izadkhah, was also executed.
After the 1979 Revolution, Rajavi became a leading figure in the Social Section of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), and played an important role in recruiting university and high school students into the ranks of the movement. At the time, the PMOI quickly emerged as the principal opposition movement to the clerical regime. In 1980, Rajavi was among candidates for the parliamentary elections in Tehran and received more than a quarter million votes, despite widespread vote fraud by the government.
Mrs. Rajavi was involved in organizing peaceful demonstrations in Tehran in April and June 1981 in protest against the government's increasingly repressive policies. When half-a-million Mojahedin supporters marched peacefully in Tehran on June 20, 1981, to demand respect for freedoms, Khomeini unleashed his reign of terror. Hundreds were killed or wounded and thousands arrested on that day.
In 1982, Rajavi left Iran for France. In Paris, she quickly emerged as the most capable and qualified woman in the movement and was eventually elected as the PMOI's Joint-Leader in 1985. Four years later, during a plenary session of the PMOI's Congress in 1989, Rajavi was elected as the Organization's Secretary General.
http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/content/view/34/59/1/0/
Prosperous people do not need religion to dominate life.
/sarcasm off/
" These demegogues commit their crimes in the name of Islam, a despicable and horrendous act, and itself one of their most heinous crimes. As a Muslim woman, let me proclaim that the peddlers of religion who rule Iran in the name of Islam, but shed blood, suppress the people and advocate export of fundamentalism and terrorism, are themselves the worst enemy of Islam and Muslims. The day will come when they will be forced to let go of the name of Islam."
Maryam Rajavi
Got another picture?
The Point...the Repression that exist in Iran. The savagery and Misogyny of the Mullah's. The point for Maryam Ragavi....is the hope of Freedom of Speech and Democracy in Iran, her native country.
Before we're forced to turn it into a self-illuminating glass-bottomed parking lot...
"Prosperous people do not need religion to dominate life."
Which may be why it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven.
"The point for Maryam Ragavi....is the hope of Freedom of Speech and Democracy in Iran, her native country."
I repeat......MEK/NCRI/PMOI is a "terrorist/cult". Maryam Rajavi and her husband have one goal.....to run Iran themselves.
You can read more here......."Monsters of the Left"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557375/posts
And here ......."The Cult of Rajavi"
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/sloth/2003-07-15.html
BTW - her cult members do not have freedom of speech and there is no such thing as democracy within the cult.
The United States needs to form a coalition committed to the idea of remaining long term within the Middle East so that depraved part of the world can grow up just like in Europe and Japan.
The United States and the Allied Powers stayed in Europe for 50 years. It may take that long in the Middle East. It will be worth it.
One foot firmly planted in each camp?
Leni
I, as a firm believer in U.S. sovereignty, do not.
Though I wish her well, I dare say the 11 to 20 million illegals in this country welcome the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also.
As Long as she doesn't Mind if I keep my head uncovered, She can keep hers covered. :-)
Amen. Let Freedom Ring!
I've never gotten that one.
Does it mean we should all strive to remain poor?
"As Long as she doesn't Mind if I keep my head uncovered"
Women in the cult must keep their head covered.
Stop believing what's coming out of her mouth and look at the facts.
What's the problem?
We believe in freedom. If she wants her head covered, fine. That's her business.
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