Maryam Rajavi
Maryam Rajavi ( Persian مريم رجوي Mariam Radschawi ; * December 4, 1953 in Tehran , Iran as Maryam Azodanlu ; Other spelling: Maryam Radjavi ) is anIranian politician livingin exile in Paris. She is the President of the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI) . This is referred to by the Federal Intelligence Service as the apron organization of the Volksmodschahedin (MEK for short), an organization that was listed by the EU as a terrorist organization between 2001 and 2009.
Life
Maryam Rajavi was born into a middle-class family whose ancestry was traced back to the Qajars . After studying metallurgy at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, she began to become politically active in the 1970s after her sister Narges was killed by the SAVAK . At first she was in an anti- Shah movement, which she led as the leader of a student movement. After the overthrow of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, she rose within the militant Iranian opposition movement, the People's Moschahedin ( Modschahedin-e Chalgh ), to a leading figure who primarily recruited intellectual students for the movement. In 1979, Maryam Azodanlu married a leading member of the People's Mojahedin, with whom she had two children.
In 1980 Maryam Azodanlu ran for the Iranian parliamentary elections , but did not win a seat in parliament . The break with Khomeini immediately before the first presidential election came about through the forced withdrawal of the People's Mojahedin leader and candidate , Massoud Rajavi . The creeping expulsion from power by the clergy prompted President Abolhassan Banisadr , who is now in opposition to the clerics , to call for nationwide demonstrations in April and June 1981. When the clashes reached their peak in June 1981, Banisadr, Rajavi and other Mojahedin officials had to leave Iran and found exile in Paris.
exile
According to her information, Maryam Azodanlu left Iran in 1982 with her family. In 1985, in exile in Paris, she married Massoud Rajavi, who had previously been married to Banisadr's daughter. In 1986 Massoud Rajavi left France, presumably under pressure from the French government, and relocated his headquarters to Iraq in order to continue the military resistance against the Iranian regime with the support of Saddam Hussein's regime. Since then, Rajavi is considered to have disappeared. In 1993, Maryam Rajavi was elected future President of Iran by the NCRI .
According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2008, Ms. Rajavi advocates the Third Way for Iran . “[After that] a change in the political situation in Iran could not be achieved either through a military intervention by the USA (first way) or through a policy of appeasement from Europe (second way). The third option is the political upheaval in Iran by the Iranian people and their organized resistance, including the NLA as a liberation army "( Verfassungsschutzbericht 2008 )
criticism
Bahman Nirumand notes a personality cult around Maryam Rajavi, who, even imitating Ayatollah Khomeini , was elevated to the rank of "leader of the revolution". The extent of this personality cult, writes Nirumand, “became apparent in June 2003 when the French police temporarily arrested Maryam Rajavi. At least ten members [of the MEK] protested by setting themselves on fire. Two women died. ”After her release, Maryam Rajavi announced:
"We have achieved our goals and are especially proud that so many have sacrificed themselves for us and burned themselves."
As part of its agitation, the NCRI criticized, for example, a military objective of the Iranian nuclear program, as the protection of the constitution found. Likewise, according to Ray McGovern , the CIA should work with the People's Mojahedin for “normal intelligence activities. Install sensors to monitor the Iranian nuclear program. Mark targets for the Air Force. Maybe also set up secret camps and monitor the stationing of troops. And a bit of sabotage. ”Ex-Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski said:“ The People's Mojahedin are ready to do things that we should be ashamed of and about which we prefer to remain silent. But that's exactly what we use them for ".
The People's Mojahedin paramilitary fighting organization has repeatedly been blamed for serious attacks on the Iranian government's embassies and consulates .
Iranian nuclear program
In August 2002 Iranian groups in exile, including the opposition group “National Council of Resistance of Iran” (NCRI), warned the secret services that Iran's nuclear program was more extensive than previously thought.
Maryam Rajavi writes about this in “ WELT ”: “In the summer of 2002, the Iranian resistance revealed the locations of the most important secret nuclear facilities, the plans for uranium enrichment and plutonium production, and made the world aware of a dangerous program that had been a secret for 18 years was. "( Maryam Rajavi )
In a presentation dated October 13, 2008, Maryam Rajavi describes the nuclear negotiations as precious time that allowed the Tehran leaders to reach the final stages in the construction of the atomic bomb. "Today they are developing atomic warheads". Likewise, this time, Rajavi speaks of 6 years, is said to have enabled Iran "to secretly and unrestrainedly occupy Iraq and to scourge democracy there."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal website ( memento of the original from October 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b nytimes.com Exiled Iranians Try to Foment Revolution From France (accessed May 9, 2013)
- ↑ Bahman Nirumand , Keywan Daddjou: With God for Power. Hamburg 1989. ISBN 3-499-12718-0 . Page 287
- ↑ http://www.ncr-iran.org/de/content/view/12/31/
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2980279.stm
- ↑ Protection of the Constitution 2006 Brochure about MEK ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c The one with the black folders , in the daily newspaper on December 13, 2006, accessed on December 29, 2009.
- ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2007. Page 246
- ↑ http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/politique/iran-opposition-haben-changement-est-en-vue ” -maryam-radjavi- 39930.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: Der Link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. [archive], interview with Jean-Pierre Thiollet , France-Soir , June 2009
- ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2008 ( Memento of October 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Constitutional Protection Report 2008, page 298
- ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2007. Page 247
- ↑ Time: The Goddess of Resistance
- ↑ http://www.hsfk.de/downloads/report0104.pdf
- ↑ Die Welt: Maryam Rajavi, March 4, 2006
- ↑ http://www.ncr-iran.org/de/content/view/1909/1/ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rajavi, Maryam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rajawi, Mariam; مريم رجوي (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran , Iran |