Leader of feminist army

A brief blog entry on Maryam Rajavi:

Resistance leader Rajavi was radicalized in the early 70s while getting her degree at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. After the shah's supporters murdered two of her sisters, she went from engineering geek to guerrilla by joining the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, a group which advocated for a secular government. In 1993, she became Iran's president-in-exile when the National Council of Resistance, the Iranian Resistance’s Parliament, elected her to become Iran’s future leader if the mullahs are ever overthrown.

Read the whole article from the source, Iran Focus...

Women make up 30 per cent of the NLA, but 70 per cent of the officers are female. The British Army has just one female brigadier, while in the Navy there are four female captains.

Rajavi has long encouraged female participation in the army. She argues that, as misogyny is the mainstay of the Iranian government, who better to strike at it than women? Her female recruits, many of whom had been tortured and imprisoned in Iran, train alongside men in all aspects of frontline battle, including hand-to-hand combat and armoured vehicle operation. With the backing of wealthy Iranian exiles, they are preparing for the day when the order comes to march east over the frontier to liberate their land from the mullahs.

Wow, that's pretty intense. Laleh Tarighi's story is inspiring. Someone who left a life of privilege to go and fight for women's freedom.