85 New Members Added to National Council of Resistance

Mrs. Mahvash Sepehri, the NCR's Senior Secretary, today announced the names of 85 new members for the NCR. This is the first group whose applications for membership have been ratified with the legal and administrative procedures completed according to the constitution and internal regulations of the NCR and voting of all members.

46 of the new members are women and 39 are men with an average of two decades of experience in the movement. Eighteen of them were political prisoners under the shah or Khomeini regimes.

24 are officials of the offices of the Resistance's President-elect and others are members of the NCR committees.

Following the interim session of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, it was announced on September 27 that the new applications for membership had been examined, the voting on them started, and the results due to be announced after ratification.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris October 12, 1995

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