Zohreh Akhyani ( fa, زهره اخیانی),(c. 1964) is the former Secretary General of the

People's Mujahedin of Iran The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) ( fa, سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران, sâzmân-e mojâhedīn-e khalq-e īrân), is an Iranian pol ...

(MEK). She was elected on 6 September 2011 to a two-year term.

Personal life

Akhyani is originally from

Shahrud, Iran Shahrood ( fa, شاهرود, also Romanized as Shâhrūd, and Shahroud; also known as Shârūd) is a city and capital of Shahrood County, Semnan Province, Iran. Situated about an altitude of 1345 m, it is located at latitude 36°25'N, long ...

. She was born around 1964. She has a daughter who was 29 years old as of 2011.

People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)

Akhyani joined the MEK following the

1979 Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

. She was introduced to the MEK by her husband, Ali Naqi Haddadi (Kamal). Zohreh Akhyani became a deputy to the Executive Committee in 1989 and a full member in 1992. 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. 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.

References

Living people People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran politicians 21st-century Iranian women politicians 21st-century Iranian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Iran-politician-stub