Iran - Maryam Rajavi and the National Liberation Army of Iran

The NLA is the military wing of the National Council of Resistance (NCR) and is a 30,000-strong Iranian resistance force based in Iraq. But unlike other liberation groups, some 35 percent of the group's soldiers are women, as are nearly three-quarters of its officers. Training at Al-Ashraf Camp inside Iraq just out of the reach of Iran's howitzers, the fully-armed NLA doesn't collect paychecks and bestows near-deity status to its female leader, Maryam Rajavi, whom the rebel group hopes to install as Iran's next president. The NLA claims to have launched at least 100 sorties into Iranian territory since it was formed in 1988. Have these folks got a chance against the mullahs? NLA troops have taken a vow of celibacy until Iran's government is toppled, so we know they're at least motivated. The NLA is one of the few armored liberation groups. The NLA can field 160 T-54/55 tanks and dozens of rocket launchers, APCs, towed howitzers and even attack helicopters. Even so, these guys and gals are more talk than action.