Mrs. Shahrzad Sadr elected Mojahedin Secretary General
Yesterday, on the 30th founding anniversary of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, thousands of members, cadres and officials of the Mojahedin in different countries, including Germany, the United States (Washington and Los Angeles), Britain, Italy, Sweden, France and the Netherlands, as well as in five Resistance bases on the Iran-Iraq frontier, took part in the organization's annual Congress.
In this nine-hour Congress, which began with a 30-gun salute in one of the bases of the National Liberation Army of Iran, elections were held for six members of the 23-member Leadership Council of the Mojahedin. The two-year term for the six, elected in August 1993, had expired. They are Mmes. Fahimeh Arvani, the Mojahedin's Secretary General, Ozra Alavi Taleqani, NLA's deputy commander in chief, Mahboubeh Jamshidi, the army's Chief of Staff, Batoul Raja'i, ranking member of the General Command, and Mmes. Sepideh Ebrahimi and Mahnaz Maymanat.
Participants in different locations participated in the Congress through a telephone conference call and directly took part in the voting.
At the outset, on behalf of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Fahimeh Arvani, 35, was appointed as the Coordinator of the Offices of the President-elect in countries where such offices have been established. Mrs. Mahnaz Maymanat, 36, was introduced as the Chief of Staff of the President-elect. Subsequently, Mmes. Arvani and Maymanat resigned from their posts in the Mojahedin organization.
Mrs. Shahrzad Sadr, 35, Mrs. Rajavi's Chief of Staff since 1993, was unanimously elected by the Mojahedin as the organization's Secretary General. Mrs. Sadr joined the Mojahedin 16 years ago.
Four other members of the Leadership Council were re-elected. Mrs. Sepideh Ebrahimi was elected as the Mojahedin's deputy Secretary General.
At the Congress's conclusion, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the Leader of the Iranian Resistance, present at one of the Resistance's bases, congratulated these elections, adding: The 30-year history of the Mojahedin with 100,000 martyrs to the cause of freedom and having gone through the most dangerous tests under two dictatorial regimes, heralds the triumph of democracy over religious despotism and fanaticism in Iran.
Emphasizing that the export of terrorism and fundamentalism is one of the pillars of the clerical regime, Mr. Rajavi said: As parliamentarians in different countries have affirmed, by virtue of their profound Islamic and popular roots, the Mojahedin are the sole solution and answer to the phenomenon of fundamentalism.
The Iranian Resistance's leader described the Iranians' gathering in Dortmund, Germany in support of the President-elect-- the biggest-ever such assembly after the fall of the shah-- as an indication of the tremendous popularity of Mrs. Rajavi inside Iran and the Iranian Resistance's widest social base.
He described the role of women in occupying various responsibilities and posts as the biggest ideological, political and social blow to the ruling mullahs. Referring to the regime's deteriorating status and the Resistance's advancement and progress in different arenas, Mr. Rajavi called for a global boycott of the mullahs' regime.
Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Paris September 4, 1995
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