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Monday, January 23, 2017

The People’s Mujahedin of Iran: A Most Undesirable Partner

By Paweł Piotr Styrna | January 18, 2017

Quite a few Iranian exiles are worried about the pro-MEK stance of some influential people in the Trump camp. The Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, has reached out to Donald Trump to congratulate him on his victory and to commence a dialogue on policy towards Iran that could benefit both countries. There are plenty of solid and patriotic Iranian oppositionists to work with. The Islamist-Marxist Mujahedin are part of the problem, not the solution....... The MEK was originally founded by a group of radical, anti-Shah university students in Iran in 1965. It was a clandestine organization dedicated to revolution and a violent, terroristic overthrow of the Pahlavi regime. Ideologically, the Mujahedin sought to combine certain elements of Marxism — especially anti-capitalism, anti-“imperialism,” and anti-“colonialism” — with political, militant Islam. They were anti-American and anti-Western, supporting a plethora of revolutionary communist movements throughout the Third World — from Vietnam to Cuba. ......To Read More.....

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