Maryam Rajavi

Maryam
Rajavi was born into a middle-class family in Tehran. Rajavi joined the MEK as a young woman. Following the 1979
anti-monarchical revolution, she ran for a seat in Parliament from Tehran
during the first parliamentary election in 1980. But, due to widespread voter
fraud by the new fundamentalist regime, none of the opposition candidates made
it into Parliament. Despite the fraud, Rajavi received over 250,000 votes.
In
1993, during its plenary session, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a
coalition whose members include a number of Iranian opposition organizations
and prominent personalities, elected Maryam Rajavi as the President-elect. As the
President-elect of the NCRI, Maryam Rajavi has made
numerous speeches regarding the real message of Islam, which revolves around
tolerance and democracy, in direct contradiction of the reactionary and
fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. 
Rajavi has given extensive lectures on modern and democratic
interpretations of Islam as opposed to the reactionary, fundamentalist
interpretation of the religion. In her view, the most prominent distinction
between these two diametrically opposed viewpoints centers around their outlook
on women.
She believes that women are a determining force in the
struggle to achieve democracy in Iran.
She has also brought attention to Iran's rich, but
endangered, artistic and cultural heritage. Many famous performers, filmmakers,
artists, painters, sculptors, poets and writers have expressed their support
for her platform for a free and secular Iran.
Maryam Rajavi advocates tolerance among various religions
and faiths. She consistently stresses promotion of secularism and recalls that
on the basis of a tolerant interpretation of Islam, Islam rejects forcing
religious beliefs on others, and considers the followers of all religions equal
in the eyes of the law.
Her plan for the
future is an Iran without the death penalty and devoid of torture. Maryam's plan is
putting an end to torture and all forms of human rights abuse in Iran.
The Iranian
Resistance declared years ago that it calls for abolition of death penalty and
an end to torture and all forms of rights abuses in Iran.
Her plan is
to revive friendship, conciliation and tolerance.
Rajavi's plan
for future is to put an end to the mullahs’ religious decrees. We reject the
inhuman penal code and other abusive laws of this regime. We believe
Retribution is an inhuman law.
Maryam Rajavi advocates
laws that are based on forgiveness, compassion and humanity.
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