Zohreh Akhyani

Zohreh Akhyani (c. 1964) is the current Secretary General of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). She was elected on 6 September 2011 to a two-year term.

Akhyani is originally from Shahrud, Iran. She was born around 1964. She has a 29-year-old daughter.

Akhyani joined the MEK 32 years ago following the anti-monarchy 1979 Iranian Revolution. 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. There were eleven candidates for this post, and she received 67 percent of the vote.