Founded in 1965 by a group of leftist Muslim Iranian university students as an Islamic and Marxist political mass movement, the MEK was originally devoted to armed struggle against the shah, capitalism, and Western nimperialism. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the MEK chose to side with the clerics led by Ayatollah Khomeini against the liberals, nationalists and other moderate forces within the revolution, but by mid-1981, MEK was fighting street battles against th Islamic Revolutionary Guards. The group claims to have renounced violence in 2001 and today it is the main component organization of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an "umbrella coalition" calling itself the "parliament-in-exile dedicated to a democratic, secular and coalition government in Iran." The front organization to garner financial support is the Muslim Iranian Students Society. In 2013 the U.S. removed MEK for its list of terrorist…
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) (MKO) (PMOI)
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