This article is exploring what happened to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. In this part, we will cover how the
Shah tried and failed to crush the MEK in the lead up to the
Revolution.
Starting in 1971, the MEK was arrested
on masse by the Shah’s secret police, SAVAK. This had already happened
to many other political groups opposed to the monarchy, but the MEK had
only just begun to launch their crusade against the monarchy after being
founded in 1965 and flying under the radar while they formulated their
plans for the removal of the Shah.
The MEK believed that they would continue the work of the revolutions from the earlier part of the 20th
Century, like the 1906 Constitutional Revolution and the 1950 Mossadeq
national movement, and bring freedom and democracy to Iran with the
removal of the monarchy.
Executions and imprisonments
Around 150 members of the MEK, including
all of the central leadership and founders, had been arrested by SAVAK
by September 1971. Sixty-nine of those MEK members were given military
tribunals and charged with attempting to overthrow the monarchy,
alongside other offences.
The media were originally allowed to
cover these trials, which brought the MEK into the hearts and minds of
the Iranian people as figures for the Resistance, but after the MEK
members revealed that they had been tortured by SAVAK, the media were
banned from the courts.
Every member of the MEK membership was
executed, except for one. Massoud Rajavi was sentenced to death, but his
brother Dr. Kazen Rajavi organised an international campaign from his
home in Geneva, gaining the support of many top French diplomats, and
Massoud Rajavi’s sentence was commuted to life in prison.
Unfortunately, due to the loss of its
leaders, the MEK was usurped by communists, which wrongly led to the MEK
being labelled a communist organisation even after the communists were
removed from the party, and the low-level MEK members were forced to
choose between supporting the new leaders or being expelled. Some of
those who left the group, were murdered by the usurpers.
Revolution is here
The Iranian Revolution, which had been
brewing for over 70 years, was about to come to a boil, thanks to the
hard work of groups like the MEK, who wanted to bring freedom and
democracy to Iran.
The Shah fled Iran on January 16, 1979,
and just four days later Massoud Rajavi was released from prison after
serving seven years. He was in the last group of political prisoners to
be freed.
Shortly after his release, Massoud
Rajavi gave a speech at Tehran University about the MEK’s history, its
goals, and how Iran would soon be free. This event, which was attended
by thousands of people marked the new beginning of the Mojahedin
National Movement.
In the next piece, we will explain how
the mullahs stole the revolution from the people and formed their own
regime that the MEK had to fight against.
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