Maryam Pakbaz A distinguished student and an intellectual Maryam Pakbaz was born in 1963. She was an excellent student majoring in math. She was able to get her high school diploma with A+ average in math at the age of 14. Maryam’s father was a communications technician and a veteran sympathizer of Iran’s late leader of the nationalist freedom movement, Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq. So, he had an impact on the political thinking of his family. Simultaneous with the social and political developments in 1978-79, she became acquainted with the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and other political forces. After the anti-monarchic 1979 Revolution in Iran, she started working full-time with the PMOI and gradually gave up her education and quit university. She was well-known in her neighborhood as an exemplary young woman, active and lively. She and her friends always distributed the PMOI’s literature and publications, participated in the demonstrations ag...