Ashraf Rajavi

Ashraf Rajavi was one of the pioneering women in the struggle of Iranian people during the regimes of the Shah and Khomeini. She was a student at Sharif Industrial University in Tehran. To join the ranks of the struggle against the regime of the Shah, she quit the university and worked full time for the resistance.
Prior to the 1979 revolution in Iran, she was arrested twice and spent some years in the Shah’s prisons where she was tortured and lost someof her body’s function. However, her resoluteness and belief in the struggle along with her perseverance made her one of the symbols of the pioneering women in Iran...