The future of Iran is a woman: The leader of the exiled Iranian Opposition, the woman who incarnates the hope for a democratic future in Iran, addressed to 50,000 of her compatriots who were gathered in Paris, on 30/6/2007, to protest against the autarchic regime of their country and to ask the international support of their struggle.
The assemply’s participants also call for implementation of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities calling for removal of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the EU’s list of terrorist organizations.
After entering Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Mariam Rajavi became a leader of the student movement and she joined the People’s Mojahedin of Iran. It is a 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.
Nina Karin Monsen,a Norwegian philosopher and author, commented: “Her character and her call for freedom is indicative of an Islam based on love of humanity and light years away from a terrorist interpretation of the mullahs about Islam. Maryam Rajavi can be compared to such leaders as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela. She is also a great religious reformer, doing with Islam, what Martin Luther did with Catholicism. Maryam Rajavi can change history.”
Photographs & Text: © Maro Kouri