Maryam Rajavi

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Key to Countering Islamic Fundamentalism

Maryam Rajavi's Testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee

Beschreibung

Testimony before U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's subcommittee on Terrorism, non-Proliferation, and Trade discussing ISIS and Islamic fundamentalism. The book contains Maryam Rajavi's full testimony as well as the question and answer by representatives. During the hearing, Maryam Rajavi who is the president-elect of Iran's parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran which seeks a secular, democratic, non-nuclear republic Iran, outlined specific steps that needs to be taken by the United States to defeat ISIS and most importantly to eliminate the epicenter of Islamic extremism and terrorism in the region. She offered a solution and emphasized on the role that the Iranian opposition has to play in bringing about change in Iran and have a positive impact in the region. She spoke via satellite from her headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, France. The testimony took place on April 29, 2015.

Autor

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi is the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which seeks the establishment of a democratic, secular and non-nuclear republic in Iran. As a Muslim woman, she advocates tolerance, gender equality and separation of religion and state. Mrs. Rajavi was politically active during and after the 1979 revolution. She received a Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. She was a candidate during the first parliamentary elections after the revolution and received approximately a quarter million votes, despite widespread election fraud by the Iranian regime. Mrs. Rajavi has appeared before many national parliaments in Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Canada and a frequent guest speaker at the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as well as France's National Assembly and the Senate. She also testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-proliferation and Trade. Her books have been translated into several languages. Mrs. Rajavi lost two of her sisters in the struggle to bring freedom and democracy to Iran. One, pregnant at the time, was executed by the clerical regime. Another was executed by the Shah's regime. A sister-in-law was executed in Iran and a brother-in-law was assassinated by the Iranian regime's terrorists in Geneva, Switzerland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Council of Resistance of Iran-US Office
• Seitenzahl: 70
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 166g
• ISBN-13: 9780990432722
• ISBN-10: 0990432726
• Artikelnr.: 43249169