MEK-PMOI Women All Leadership- New Elections: Democracy in its altitude

It was a hair – raising experience.

I was watching moments that will be recalled many times in our history. For the first time in Iranian history, we are witnessing positive sexual integration in practice, challenging the most hazardous disputes in our times. Facing irreversible retributions and slanders by the Iranian regime, while at the same time saving lives of thousands and leading a movement that has managed to triumph over a religious regime in Iran. We have to give this leadership credit for the successive victories and the courage displayed by each and every one of them, in their confrontation with this misogynous regime that has cowed not only the US administration but 27 other countries in their failed policy to curb it.

It is the first time in our history that a women leadership has in practice resolved the most complicated organizational, philosophical and political settings, in order to be the only anti-thesis to the clerics in Iran and also in presenting the only Bastion for hope, for the populace in Iran.

Let’s face it, no other power has managed to stand firm against the mullahs so far.

Leading MEK women waving flags with joy for the new elected Se. Gen.

The Iranian history has to be looked at independently and not in comparison with other histories.

It defies practically all routines and methods of social change, since it has been subjected to a variety of exploitations and dictatorships. It may be a unique case in history where, during only a half a century, one nation has undergone a social evolution that may take other decades to undertake.

Iranians have had 100 years of plight for Freedom. So many Freedom movements have appeared in our history, each trying to confront one tyrant and brush aside one obstacle.

In Sattar Khan’s Constitutional revolution, the movement confronted a solid front of foreign powers, all interested in the natural wealth of the country and the geopolitical situation it offered in view of the war.



PMOI memebers each cast votes in various places

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He stood firm but at last lost to a betrayal that came from Iranians who collaborated from the higher class with foreign hands.

At time of Mirza Kuchakkhan, the wave of National urge to be independent of the Russians who had usurped much of Iran’s National wealth  , once again due to subordination and short term benefit of the rich hierarchy in power, pushed the Russians back but , yet again a “Betrayal” from within Kuchak khans’ forces , cost him his head.

He was tracked down along with an American who has stood firm with him, called Buskervill. They both died as heroes.

Then came Mossadegh. He too faced an emerging new hierarchy the new bourgeoisie of the Shah’s time, this time subdued by first the British Empire and later by the US. They were searching for oil .



MEK/PMOI memebers each have a vote in the elections

 As Mossadegh stood firm against the oil fiasco-plot by British petroleum and US oil companies to usurp Iranian Natural wealth, his solution became handy and he nationalized the oil but lost his grounds in government .  at the end he was brushed asid and later called a traitor by a prominent Ayatollah , a good friend of Khomeini ( founder of the Islamic regime in Iran)

PMOI ELECTIONS:

Democracy in its altitude

Today, the Iranian people are still struggling in a plight, the same one traced back to Sattar Khan, this time with much difference.

As I was looking at the scenes of the elections, a collection of feelings run though my heart and filled my veins. Adjectives and descriptions cannot elaborate what passed through me for moments.

It was as if dots in my past history collided with moments of triumph in our homeland Iran and rolled over on to the scenes I was looking at. A peculiar feeling of weightlessness; pride and security; fluffiness and independence; perseverance and at the same time responsibility run through me. It was the first time I felt love for those outside myself being so much as to feel needy to give up my own comfort for others , more like pure humanism and harmony with all that I can feel around me.



Men and Women MEK vote side by side with no negative competition



The triumph of all the good I ever thought of, that I could not imagine out of TV series was in front of me to prove and assert the truth: the MEK is lead by Women leadership who have resolved the most intricate social rights and fulfilled many dreams of many women right defenders. This is where these women have proved to be Leaders and Makers of the future.

It was a long time I had not seen another woman, striving to introduce with all resolve another woman, higher and more eligible for vote than herself. I listened with awe What Sedighe Hossieni -the previous secretary general had to say. One would expect a slight joyously or competition; in vain. But all said was awe, respect and richness of values that existed in the new Secretary General.

I would have thought this would end and there would be someone reflecting envy.

The next one who spoke, a candidate for election was all one word : My choice for election , when I voted was other than me . It was Zohre Akhiani.

The third candidate came to speak out . She too declared her inner wish and urge for yet another person to be elected: Zohre Akhiani

There was absolute will, choice and insight in every word uttered by all those who spoke.

For me, it seemed that all those , each represented a generation of the most intellectual, well bread , open minded and willed intellectuals I had ever wished to see in one place. In my city “ASHRAF”.

It was as if all our past history was repeating a generation’s wish: for Freedom and Democracy to be established in Iran.