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Reported by  PMOI/MEK Iran, Sept. 5, 2018  -  Members of numerous resistance units associated to the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) put up posters of the PMOI/MEK founding members and Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi, alongside banners and placards in various cities across the country, celebrating this organization’s 53 rd  founding anniversary on September 6 th . Members of a resistance unit in  Isfahan  put up a large banner of the PMOI/MEK symbol and the image of Massoud Rajavi. In the  Mehrshahr  district of  Karaj , west of  Tehran , members of Resistance Unit no. 140 also put up large posters of Massoud Rajavi and commemorating this anniversary. Members of Resistance Unit 940 in  Mashhad  put up a banner on a pedestrian bridge, portraying the image of Massoud Rajavi and the PMOI/MEK symbol. Resistance unit members in  Golestan  put up ...

SEPTEMBER 06, 2018 Mohammad Hanifnejad Saeid Mohsen and Ali Asghar Badizadegan By  PMOI/MEK Anyone who remembers Iran in the 1950s and 1960s can attest that it was an era marked by severe repression against the dissidents and political activists. After conducting the 1953 coup against Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s popular Prime Minister who nationalized the country’s oil industry, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s monarch, had forced all opposition groups and movements into silence and submission. Through his brutal secret police, the Savak, Pahlavi had established an iron-fisted rule. The first members of PMOI/MEK hail from circles of young intellectuals and academics It was under these circumstances that on September 6, 1965, three Iranian intellectuals,  Mohammad Hanifnejad ,  Saeid Mohsen  and  Ali Asghar Badizadegan , founded a new opposition movement that later became the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the p...

Herald Middle East Mahdavi Nasim mahdavi85 The role and plight of ethnic minorities in Iranian society tend to receive little attention from Western analysts and policymakers. This may be largely due to the predominance of Tehran as the focal point of Iranian culture, politics, and foreign policy. Moreover, Iran’s ethnic minorities have been heavily marginalized by Iran’s Persian-dominated Shiite theocracy. The suppression of minority rights has resulted in ethnic insurgencies over the years, some of which continue to bedevil the Iranian regime. Nevertheless, many Iranian intellectuals, have come to view Iran’s ethnic minorities as an inseparable component of the national fabric. They have also come to realize that the Iranian regime’s repression and discrimination against minorities has not only slowed Iran’s advancement, but it could one day jeopardize the survival of the Islamic Republic, and even Iran’s territorial integrity And while the repression and...