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Iskandar323 what is going on? Why are you promoting the same minor view in these BLPs? ParadaJulio (talk) 09:59, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
This was justified on the basis of the new relationship being "a matter of revolutionary necessity". Following my notification here, it appears you changed it to
the two co-leaders would marry in an act that was framed as being for the benefit of the organizationwhile adding this BBC source to it? How does the BBC source support this was "a matter of revolutionary necessity"? ParadaJulio (talk) 14:57, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Rajavi, as the head of the organization, launched an “ideological revolution”, banning marriage and enforcing mandatory “eternal” divorce on all members, who were required to separate from their husbands or wives. He married one of the new divorcees, Maryam Azodanlu, who became, in effect, his chief lieutenant and took his name.[1]
At the Neshest it took Rajavi five days to convince members of his main revolutionary demand - that they should divorce their spouses. He wanted to ensure that members’ sexual identity would be denied and thus bring about their complete devotion to himself as their leader... Massoud and Maryam Rajavi were married in February 1985. Members were given an ideological explanation: “Maryam chose to divorce her husband in favour of her marriage to the Mojahedin’s ideological leader so that she could work with him as cooperating leading partners.”(Cohen, 2009, pp.32-39)
the Mojahedin had metamorphized from a mass movement into an inward-looking sect in many ways similar to religious cults found the world over. This metamorphosis rapidly crystallized in early 1985 with Rajavi’s new marriage...Until then, Mojahedin activists had known Maryam Azodanlu as merely the younger sister of a veteran member, and the wife of Mehdi Abrishamchi, one of Rajavi’s close colleagues…proclamation also mentioned almost in passing that Maryam Azodanlu and Mehdi Abrishamchi had recently divorced in order to pave the way for this 'great revolution...It smacked of wife-swapping, especially when Abrishamchi announced his own marriage to Khiabani’s younger sister...(Abrahamian, 1989, pp.251-255)
This was justified on the basis of the new relationship being "a matter of revolutionary necessity"? And please provide the page numbers from Abrahamian's and Cohen's quotes, I have not been able to find them in those books. ParadaJulio (talk) 15:15, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
This was justified on the basis of the new relationship being "a matter of revolutionary necessity", even though it's a statement from a single source.