Democracy and role of women in leadership – Leader of Iranian Resistance

[CornField]

http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/1125/1/

This is interesting, although I can't finish reading it before heading out to a meeting. Thought others might like it as well...

NCRI – On the occasion of the International Women's Day, March 8, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, underlined the importance of women's role in political leadership to fight fundamentalism and why they guarantee democracy for Iran’s future. The following is the second and final part of her message:

The capacity for democratic change

The Iranian Resistance has the necessary political and social capacity to realize democratic change in Iran. It relies on a vast popular base, a capable force near the Iranian frontier, an organizational structure and a legitimate and progressive ideal. But the spirit that transforms these underlying potentials into reality is women's leadership.

Because they have been historically exploited and suppressed, women possess an enormous motivation and high perseverance in the struggle in order to make up for their lag. In the confrontation with the mullahs, we realized that women resemble a compressed spring that when released from the shackles of discrimination and faced with responsibility, they take giant leaps forward. The extensive presence of women in the anti-monarchic revolution in 1979, their heroic role in the confrontation with the clerical dictatorship, including their astounding resistance to torture in the regime’s prisons, and the invaluable role they have played in the organized Resistance, prove that women are the growing force of our times. This growing force of women in the Resistance inspires women in Iranian society on a large scale to aspire to democratic change and transforms them into a major force to liberate Iran. Thus, it is the fundamental pillar of the Iranian Resistance's power.

[cally]

1. Iran had a very open society

before the mullahs gained power. I've talked to a few immigrants about their experiences before they moved here and women had many rights. I like the idea of women as a compressed spring waiting when freed will take giant leaps forward. I would guess that's true in many countries where women are being suppressed.

Thanks for posting.