In dawn of May 25, 1972, the founders of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), Mohammad Hanifnejad, Saeed Mohsen and Ali Asghar Badizadegan, along with two members of the PMOI leadership, Mahmoud Askarizadeh and Rasoul Meshkinfam, were put before death squads and were executed after long months of imprisonment and torture in Shah's SAVAK dungeons.
They were the vanguards, who stood against the dictatorial regime of Shah. At a time when former methods of struggle had failed and there was no prospect for freedom in the country, the founders of the PMOI founded an organization based on a progressive and democratic interpretation of Islam.
The founders' ultimate goal was to pave the way for a democratic government to replace the Shah's regime. In contrast to most of their contemporaries, they believed that a new, democratically inclined interpretation of Islam was the means to this end. They set about establishing a political organization that could survive the shah's repression and respond to the needs of ordinary citizens.
The PMOI was founded in 1945 to strive for a democratic Iran, at the time when Iran was being used by the British colonialism and the US Imperialistic interest in the natural sources of the country. At that time there was an interest conflict between the 2 powers over Iran's wealth and geopolitical benefits...At that time Mossadegh -- a popular Nationalist who had fought the Shah for the Iranian people's right to their wealth in the oil industry, was toppled by a US lead coup d'etas . The Iranian people were left in despair. Hardly any hope for any real nationalists to retain their rights. The Imperial dictatorship learned to pretend to bring progress for the society, but all his plans only widened class divisions, as the Iranian society fell into a cultural reform exchanging much of Iranian culture with the US ones under a "cultural change scheme" carried by the Shah. At the same time, through this so called change, all opposing intellectuals were labeled as terrorists, Marxists and were hunted down and caught in prisons. The 2 main political; movements, Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) and the Fedaain (Marxists) were traced by the infamous secret police and purged. Most members were imprisoned. The PMOI, underwent a lot of pressure as their main organizational structure was shattered. The remaining new members, who had been very fragile towards the blows by the SAVAK, were left trying to balance and stay afloat. At this time the Mullahs found the opportunity ripe to serve another blow on the remains of this organization, which represented an ideology completely opposite to Islamic fundamentalism. It had been long that Khomeini had awaited for an opportunity to eradicate this new generation of activists who believed that the bases of Islam was on compassion and democracy and freedom, rather than a religious centralized fascism.
The end result was the utmost co0operation of the mullahs with the Shah to eradicate this group...
Their founders were executed, the remains of their leadership were court-martialed, and sentenced to death, and their members were scattered outside prison. At the beginning of the 1979 uprising, the PMOI's leadership had been in prison, whilst Khomeini was brought to power by a political agreement signed and sealed between the Shah, the West and Khomeini. An agreement that was supposed to bring Khomeini temporarily to calm the revolting crowed in Iran, and then re institute the Shah as he would slide back into his religious cocoon. But things turned to the dissatisfaction and surprise of the deceived WEST. Khomeini had deceived all sides; the West, the Shah, and also the Iranian people. He usurped the uprising, establishing an Islamic dictatorship and refusing to even add the name "Democratic" to the title of the Iranian system which turned to be an "Islamic republic"!!
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