Organization of the Mujahideen of the Iranian People

In addition to the abbreviation OMIN, the organization is also known under the names MEK (Mujahhedin-e-Hulk) and "People’s Mujahideen of Iran," and its armed wing is the "National Liberation Army of Iran." She is considered the founder of the National Resistance Council of Iran, uniting all opposition Iranian forces.

OMIN was organized in 1965 by students of Tehran University , dissatisfied with the shah regime. The purpose of the organization was to create a socialist republic in Iran; building on the basis of a classless society, devoid of any form of dictatorship and exploitation ^[8] , which, however, was called not communism, but a carriage society ^[9] .

In the 1970s, OMIN activists organized a series of terrorist attacks. At that time, the Marxist-Leninist wing, Peykari ( Persian پيکار - struggle), set out to create a People’s Democratic Republic in the country ^[10], split off from Mujahhedin-e-Hulk. By 1978, OMIN had 100 thousand members ^[11] . Initially, the organization welcomed the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran , however, subjected to terror by the Ayatollah regime, it turned into opposition to the new government and resumed the armed struggle.

On June 28, 1981, an explosion was made at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party, killing 72 senior government officials, including the leader of the IRP and the chairman of the Supreme Court, Ayatollah M. H. Beheshti , the second person in the country ^[12] . On August 30, as a result of an explosion organized by the OMIN in the Prime Minister’s office, Iranian President Mohammed Rajai , Prime Minister Mohammed Bakhonar and Interior Minister H. Wahid-Dostgerdi were killed, and Defense Minister S. M. Namju was seriously wounded ^[12] . All this time, members of the organization were terrorized by the Iranian security forces and suffered significant losses, the arrested Mujahideen were brutally tortured.
Losses of the organization from the summer of 1981 to the summer of 1984 amounted to more than 20 thousand people ^[12] .

In July-August 1981, a series of attacks were launched on the Islamic regime in Iran: an attack on the residence of the Prosecutor General, an explosion in the Prime Minister’s office, attacks on the barracks of the “Islamic revolution guardians” and police stations. The peak occurred on August 8-10, when about 60 explosions thundered in different cities ^[12] .

September 1981 - street fighting in the city of Mehabad, attack on the building of the Mejlis, September 5 - explosion of the office of the Prosecutor General of the Islamic Revolution A. Koddusi (the latter died), September 12 - the murder in Tabriz of the former presidential candidate, prominent Islamist leader Ayatollah A. Madani ^[12] .

Since 1982, she relocated to France , and in 1986 - to Iraq , from whose territory she made armed sorties into Iran during the Iran-Iraq war . Expecting to use Mujahedin-e-Halk as a ram against the Iranian forces, the Iraqi government housed its members on the Iran-Iraq border in well-fortified military bases with heavy armored vehicles, artillery, tanks and helicopters ^[13] . In July 1988, large OMIN forces, with the support of the Iraqi army, carried out the Eternal Light offensive, reaching the city of Islamabad-Garb. During the response (and the last in this war) operation of the Iranian troops ( Operation Mersad ), the OMIN forces were defeated, and in the course of subsequent executions, tens of thousands of prisoners - members of the organization - were executed in Iranian prisons. In 1992, fighters of Mujahedin-e-Hulk attacked Iranian embassies in 13 countries of the world ^[14] .

In April 2003, during the invasion of US-British forces in Iraq, OMIN units were disarmed by coalition forces, and members of the organization were detained, where they are still. According to some Human Rights Watch , OMIN is responsible for the brutal torture of its members ^[15] .

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• - official site of the Mujahideen Organization of the Iranian people