Radical islam the iranian mojahedin pdf

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Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran. Homa Katouzian. It is overly simplistic to look beyond these differences in how Islam is practiced and interpreted, to make it a homogeneous doctrine and use it as an intrinsic element to analyze a movement. This essay will instead analyze the behavior of the Mojahedin movement through time to understand its motives and activities. While these demonstrators were unarmed, they were suppressed harshly by the armed forces of the regime, and many were killed or injured.

The new generation then mostly started their own movement in the late s as the MKO. First there was a rising activity among guerrilla organizations in Vietnam10, Algeria, and Latin America Secondly, this was the post-colonial period in which many countries in the Middle-East had only 5 Ibid.

This meant that there was a growing tendency against imperialism in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries. Thus a doctrine in which the country would and should stand up against imperialism would answer the perceived needs of the society at the time.

The surviving MKO members were actively networking in prisons and through new members inside prison, mostly political students who were eventually freed, the MKO had established political active groups all over Iran.

Over the next four years, the MKO carried out a succession of violent attacks: robbing six banks; assassinating a U. At this point it is interesting to note that many members of the MKO were sons of religious-minded merchants, bazaar traders, clergymen, and other members of the traditional middle classes. They were set up by the mosque leaders and consisted of volunteers, pasdars lit. The Mojahedin did participate in the parliamentary elections of and even though the official numbers announced gave them over 20 percent of the votes in the provincial regions, they were given no seats in parliament.

Congress; many senators and representatives saw the organization as anti-terrorist, and helpful to the United States in providing information about the activities of the Iranian government, including its nuclear program. They combined anti-imperialist ideologies 60 Abrahamian, Mojahedin, Chapter Despite their idealist fights in the sixties and seventies, they became increasingly pragmatic after the revolution of by not protesting against the monopolizing power of the Khomeini and its Islamic Republic Party, while many other organizations did protest.

The Mojahedin Khalq Organization is an Iranian political party that helped Khomeini's religious sect in Iran bring about the Islamic revolution of after being at the forefront of opposition to the rule of the Shah. However, as the revolution got underway, the Mojahedin, which used some.

His primary aim throughout has been to achieve power in Iran through violence. That is, without reference to any political process. Iranian Mojahedin Pages 2. A27 The Physical Object Pagination viii, p. Poultry production Pages 4. The Letters of Mark Twain Vol. Introduction to Optimization of Structures Pages 4.