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Women have enormous inner energy crushed through out the ages through systematic suppression, and when this energy is allowed to excerpted, it will be explosive. In Iran, women bear much energy and will and have so far formed the front line in confronting religious fundamentalism. They have been the first victim, because the mullahs have always targeted them as the first experiment to crush society, and for this reason they are the first to have tasted the mediaeval.
from Mr.Rajavi's speech on 8 March 2008:
Today, the issue of women and the need for their active participation in all political, social and economic spheres has become the most urgent necessity for progress, democracy and peace.

Without women's leadership role, the fight for freedom will not go forward.

Without the active and equal presence of women in leadership levels, democracy would be deficient and hollow.

And without women's genuine participation, instead of economic development, the trend of poverty, inequality and squandering of material and human resources will continue.

Thus, it is essential to think about the subject of equality, figure out ways of removing its obstacles and a strategy for its advancement, while looking at some success stories and exemplary cases.

With this in mind, I would like to talk about an example which is rather novel in the history of Iran and Islam. I am referring to the three decades of women's struggle within the ranks of the Iranian Resistance, which at its core witnessed the perseverance of the women-led Ashraf City.

Located in neighboring Iraq, about fifty kilometers from Iran’s border, Ashraf City is home to thousands of women and men who have spent 22 years of their lives struggling to establish democracy in their homeland. The one thousand women who currently reside in Ashraf City, in reality represent the world’s largest concentration of vanguards of the equality movement.

In the past 30 years, our movement has engaged in an all-out war with a religious fascism, which is based on gender apartheid. Although fundamentally reactionary and backwards, this monster employs the most modern technologies to suppress, control, intimidate, and terrorize people, essentially by exploiting religion. Such exploitation characterizes it as a new phenomenon in history.

Confronting this source of darkness and evil would have been an impossible undertaking, unless the essential building blocks of the resistance movement against it sheltered the most fundamental human values: Equality, liberty, freedom of choice and democracy.

Khomeini and the clique of mullahs supporting him deluded the Iranian people and usurped the leadership of the 1979 revolution with slogans and claims about Islam. Since the first day of their rule, they began to suppress the population, especially women, because they were terrified of freedom and democracy. Their intention was to erect a theocratic empire under the banner of Islam through the export of terrorism and war.

However, owing to the presence of a popular and organized opposition, which defended a tolerant and democratic Islam, the mullahs were quickly isolated. Now, more than ninety percent of the Iranian people are demanding regime change. The mullahs' brutal suppression of the people and their current efforts to build nuclear weapons and dominate Iraq, far from being from a position of strength, are therefore designed to forestall the overthrow of a regime, which has reached the end of the line.

From the outset, the religious fundamentalists' voracious single-mindedness could not tolerate a drop of ideological diversity, let alone the thought of a democratic Islam, the antithesis to fundamentalism, represented by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main component of the resistance to the regime.

Meanwhile, Mojahedin women took on an impressive role in confronting the mullahs since the very first days of the mullahs' rule. Although they wore scarves themselves, Mojahedin women bravely withstood the repugnant mantra of "either the veil or a hit on the head."

For a regime which ruled under the name of Islam, it was extremely difficult to tolerate that the Muslim Mojahedin, especially women and girls in their ranks, would be at the forefront of the opposition.

Mojahedin women paid a heavy price in the face-off with the mullahs. Tens of thousands of them endured dreadful imprisonment, horrific tortures and were executed.

Nonetheless, the struggle continued.

In a traditional society, subjugated by religious dictatorship, women had to overcome formidable obstacles in their struggle against this monster. In most cases, the first obstacle was women's families and their parents. Women also had to forgo their education, husbands and children to join the ranks of the Resistance. There was no room for family life amid the struggle against a barbaric regime which does not even refrain from hanging children.

Moreover, contrary to men, women had to

Extract from Mrayam Rajavis speech on 8 March 2007.
Women have enormous inner energy crushed through out the ages through systematic suppression, and when this energy is allowed to excerpted, it will be explosive. In Iran, women bear much energy and will and have so far formed the front line in confronting religious fundamentalism. They have been the first victim, because the mullahs have always targeted them as the first experiment to crush society, and for this reason they are the first to have tasted the mediaeval.
from Mr.Rajavi's speech on 8 March 2008:
Today, the issue of women and the need for their active participation in all political, social and economic spheres has become the most urgent necessity for progress, democracy and peace.

Without women's leadership role, the fight for freedom will not go forward.

Without the active and equal presence of women in leadership levels, democracy would be deficient and hollow.

And without women's genuine participation, instead of economic development, the trend of poverty, inequality and squandering of material and human resources will continue.

Thus, it is essential to think about the subject of equality, figure out ways of removing its obstacles and a strategy for its advancement, while looking at some success stories and exemplary cases.

With this in mind, I would like to talk about an example which is rather novel in the history of Iran and Islam. I am referring to the three decades of women's struggle within the ranks of the Iranian Resistance, which at its core witnessed the perseverance of the women-led Ashraf City.

Located in neighboring Iraq, about fifty kilometers from Iran’s border, Ashraf City is home to thousands of women and men who have spent 22 years of their lives struggling to establish democracy in their homeland. The one thousand women who currently reside in Ashraf City, in reality represent the world’s largest concentration of vanguards of the equality movement.

In the past 30 years, our movement has engaged in an all-out war with a religious fascism, which is based on gender apartheid. Although fundamentally reactionary and backwards, this monster employs the most modern technologies to suppress, control, intimidate, and terrorize people, essentially by exploiting religion. Such exploitation characterizes it as a new phenomenon in history.

Confronting this source of darkness and evil would have been an impossible undertaking, unless the essential building blocks of the resistance movement against it sheltered the most fundamental human values: Equality, liberty, freedom of choice and democracy.

Khomeini and the clique of mullahs supporting him deluded the Iranian people and usurped the leadership of the 1979 revolution with slogans and claims about Islam. Since the first day of their rule, they began to suppress the population, especially women, because they were terrified of freedom and democracy. Their intention was to erect a theocratic empire under the banner of Islam through the export of terrorism and war.

However, owing to the presence of a popular and organized opposition, which defended a tolerant and democratic Islam, the mullahs were quickly isolated. Now, more than ninety percent of the Iranian people are demanding regime change. The mullahs' brutal suppression of the people and their current efforts to build nuclear weapons and dominate Iraq, far from being from a position of strength, are therefore designed to forestall the overthrow of a regime, which has reached the end of the line.

From the outset, the religious fundamentalists' voracious single-mindedness could not tolerate a drop of ideological diversity, let alone the thought of a democratic Islam, the antithesis to fundamentalism, represented by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main component of the resistance to the regime.

Meanwhile, Mojahedin women took on an impressive role in confronting the mullahs since the very first days of the mullahs' rule. Although they wore scarves themselves, Mojahedin women bravely withstood the repugnant mantra of "either the veil or a hit on the head."

For a regime which ruled under the name of Islam, it was extremely difficult to tolerate that the Muslim Mojahedin, especially women and girls in their ranks, would be at the forefront of the opposition.

Mojahedin women paid a heavy price in the face-off with the mullahs. Tens of thousands of them endured dreadful imprisonment, horrific tortures and were executed.

Nonetheless, the struggle continued.

In a traditional society, subjugated by religious dictatorship, women had to overcome formidable obstacles in their struggle against this monster. In most cases, the first obstacle was women's families and their parents. Women also had to forgo their education, husbands and children to join the ranks of the Resistance. There was no room for family life amid the struggle against a barbaric regime which does not even refrain from hanging