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Maryam Rajavi
Iranian opposition leader (born 1953)
Maryam Rajavi (Persian: مریم رجوی, née Qajar-Azodanlu, Persian: مریم قجر عضدانلو; born 4 December 1953) is an Iranian dissident politician and the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), an organization advocating the overthrow of the Iranian government, and president-elect of its National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). She is married to Massoud Rajavi, who is the co-leader of MEK.[7][3]
Early life
Rajavi was born Maryam Qajar-Azodanlu on 4 December 1953 in Tehran, to a middle-class family of civil servants descended from the Qajar dynasty.[8][9] She attended the Sharif University of Technology in Iran, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in metallurgy.[8]
Political career
Rajavi has stated that her political activism began when she was twenty-two, after her sister Narges was killed by SAVAK.[9] Her other sister, Massumeh, was also executed (while pregnant) in 1982 by Ruhollah Khomeini’s regime.[10] Then she be
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Massoud Rajavi
Iranian political activist (born 1948)
Massoud Rajavi (Persian: مسعود رجوی, born 18 August 1948 – disappeared 13 March 2003)[2] is an Iranian politician and revolutionary who became the leader of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) in 1979.[3] After leaving Iran in 1981, he resided in France and Iraq.[4] He went missing shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq,[4][5][6] leaving his then wife and co-leader Maryam Rajavi as the public face of the MEK.[3]
Biography
Rajavi joined the MEK when he was 20 and a law student at the University of Tehran. He graduated with a degree in political law. Rajavi and the MEK actively opposed the Shah of Iran and participated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.[7]
During the Pahlavi regime, Rajavi was arrested by SAVAK and sentenced to death. Due to efforts by his brother, Kazem Rajavi, and various Swiss lawyers and professors, his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. He was released from prison during the Iranian Revolutio
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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Information regarding the life and assassination of Mr. Kazem Rajavi (Radjavi) was obtained from Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABC) interviews with Mr. Rajavi’s lawyer, Maitre Nils de Dardel (7 July 2023) and with Frank Garbely (6 July 2023), producer of “Witness C,” a documentary focusing on Kazem Rajavi’s case with support from various informed sources. Witness C, Abolqassem Mesbahi, is a former Iranian high level intelligence officer based in Paris and Geneva and well informed about extraterritorial operations in Europe and their financing. He provided key information to the German, Swiss and Argentinean authorities on terrorism cases (6 July 2023). Information was also drawn from a series of newspaper articles; Washington Post (10 June 1990 and 22 July 1990); Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs (June 1990); Der Schweizerische Beobachter (16 August 1991); Independent (1 January 1994); New York Times (8 January 1994); Le Monde (16 December 1994); Swissinfo (9 April 2006 and 11 Ju
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