Hamid Rezai: Sazman-e Mojahedin-e khalq-e Iran (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (original) (raw)
Maryam and Ma'sud Rajavi with its political headquarters in Paris, can be traced back in the 1950s. The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Dr. Mosaddeq in August 1953 by a US and British-led military coup and the repressive policies of the Shah regime against the non-violent opposition, especially the bloody crackdown of the June 1963 uprising in the religious city of Qom, prompted some members of the religious liberal group the Liberation Movement of Iran (LMI) to reconsider their strategies in the struggle against the Pahlavi state. Motivated by the success of revolutionaries in Cuba and the rise of armed guerilla organizations in Latin America and Asia, these younger LMI activists, all university students, came to believe that guerilla warfare is the only effective strategy of resistance against a regime with a large-scale bureaucracy, powerful army and police force. In the search for a new strategy this generation of Muslim activists formed initially an underground reading group in which alongside the Qur'an they read works of leftist revolutionaries across the globe to formulate a new ideology of revolution and establish a leadership that could successfully launch a revolution and pave the path for the creation of a classless society that would eliminate all forms of human exploitation. After six years of kar-e feshordeh-e ideolozhik (intense ideological activity) in September 1965 the members of the reading group led by Mohammad Hanifnejad announced the formation of the MEK armed with the ideology of what they called eslam-e rastin-e enqelabi (the true revolutionary Islam).
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