Maryam rajavi biography of donald

Maryam Rajavi was born in 1953 to a middle class family in Tehran and is married to Massoud Rajavi.

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She has a daughter (born in 1982) and a degree in metallurgical engineering. Mrs. Rajavi became acquainted with the anti-shah movement in 1970. After entering Sharif University of Technology in Tehran to pursue her education, she quickly became a leader of the student movement and joined the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, the Muslim, democratic and nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of a secular government in Iran.

The shah’s regime executed one of her sisters, Narges, and the Khomeini regime murdered another, Massoumeh, who was pregnant at the time, along with the sister’s husband.

A Capable Organizer

Mrs. Rajavi was active in the social department of the Mojahedin, and played an instrumental role in attracting and recruiting university and high school students to the movement in the post-shah Iran, when the Mojahedin emerg Maryam Rajavi, Woman at the Helm - NCRI GIS