Zohreh Akhyani

Zohreh Akhyani (c. 1964) is the current Secretary General of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK).[1] She was elected on 6 September 2011 to a two-year term.[1]

Personal life

Akhyani is originally from Shahrud, Iran.[2] She was born around 1964.[3] She has a 29-year-old daughter.[2]

People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)

Akhyani joined the MEK 32 years ago following the anti-monarchy 1979 Iranian Revolution.[2] She was introduced to the MEK by her husband, Ali Naqi Haddadi (Kamal).[3]

Zohreh Akhyani became a deputy to the Executive Committee in 1989 and a full member in 1992.[3] In 1993, she was elected and began to serve as a member of the MEK's Leadership Council. Akhyani was the representative in Germany of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the political wing of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), from 1997 to 1999 and Deputy Secretary General from 2001 until 2011.[3]

Akhyani was elected as the new Secretary General of the MEK for a period of 2 years in September 2011 that was also the organization’s 47th anniversary.[4] There were eleven candidates for this post, and she received 67 percent of the vote.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "PMOI(MEK) Annual Congress elects Zohreh Akhyani as new Secretary General". National Council of Resistance of Iran. 8 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Zohreh Akhyani was elected as the new Secretary General of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in Annual Congress". People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. 10 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "PMOI New Secretary General". Habilian Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Iranian Resistance, Mujahedin-E Khalq-MEK, Elect New Secretary General". Camp Ashraf. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2012.

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