An excerpt about the Mujahin-e-Khalq from OIL & ISLAM – THE TICKING BOMB by Farid A. Khavari (1990) Page 129 – 132: “The controversies surrounding Ayatollah Taleghani and Dr. Ali Shariati, as well as the political goals of the Mujahidin-e-Kahlq, are issues which require some explanation. According to a publication of the Mouvement Iran Libre in Paris, the Soviets brought the Mujahidin into existence under the leadership of Ayatollah Taleghani. This was done in order to harness the power of Islam and its clergy to realize Soviet political goals in Iran. This is why the Mujahidin have been stamped ‘Islamic Marxists.’ On the other hand, as soon as the British noticed the intentions of the Soviets and became aware of their resolve to penetrate the traditionally British domain of strategy (for example, working through the mullahs to attain political objectives) the British instantly installed Dr. Ali Shariati as a counterbalance to Taleghani. Thus, the Mujahidin ended up with two spiritual leaders. Whether this political intrigue corresponds with reality is not relevant; what matters are the goals that these entities pursued. There is no doubt that Ayatollah Taleghani leaned somewhat to the left, and that Dr. Shariati and the Mujahidin-e-Khalq followed. Their paramount objective was to topple the Shah, do away with his regime, and obliterate the Pahlavi dynasty altogether. Once this objective was achieved, the driving force for further action was subdued. Although Dr. Shariati was found dead on June 19, 1977, and he did not live to see the success of his actions, everywhere in Iran the demonstrators carried his portrait in parades. The Mujahidin-e-Khalq went into decline after the revolution. Following a short honeymoon with the mullahs of the Khomeini regimes, they were outmaneuvered by Khomeini’s strategists and pushed from the Iranian political scene. The mutual terrorism that followed this split drove the two factions farther apart. Hundreds of officials of the Khomeini government were killed. In retaliation, Khomeini had huge masses of young Mujahidin executed. The leaders of the Mujahidin escaped to France from Iran. Today they live in Iraq. Although the young Mujahidin sacrificed their lives for their ideology, their leaders’ moral character and leadership qualities could both be described as weak. Consider, for example, the Mujahidin leader Masud Rajavi. Rajavi’s wife was killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in Iran, and their baby taken away. Rajavi escaped to Paris with Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. There he married Bani-Sadr’s daughter Mariam. A few years later, he divorced his wife. Shortly thereafter, in a rare show of solidarity, a senior Mujahiidin divorced his wife so that Rajavi could marry her and have the succor of a woman whose political bent was acceptable. According to the Mujahidin, this marriage took place with sacrifices on both sides, in order to strengthen the Mujahidin. The Iranian people are skeptical of the Mujahidi-e-Khalq, as another Islamic political group which is, in addition to everything else, pro-Soviet. (Note: This may not hold true today.) Upon reflection on the ideologies of Ayatollah Taleghani and Dr. Shariati, it appears that both men were devoted to the revival of the customs and laws of 1,300 years ago, and sought to tie them to already failed economic and political doctrine of Marxism. Both men’s ideologies were devoid of constructive teachings or principles, and neither attempted to guide his followers to improve their lot in life through education. In place of any plan for the betterment of their countrymen, they incited their followers to become revolutionaries and to topple the Shah, without realizing that the misery of Iran was not entirely the fault of the Shah. Thus, the intellect and energy of two brilliant men were wasted in the pursuit of destructive goals. With them perished a golden opportunity for constructive change, and the lives of countless idealistic young Mujahidin. An interesting note is that the objectives and philosophies of Islam and Marxism are irreconcilable. Islam promotes individual ownership of property and accumulation of wealth, and permits slavery. In the Koran, the class structure of society is endorsed, and the poor are told that their poverty is God-given and therefore their destiny. The incompatibility of Islam and Marxism doomed the Mujahidin-e-Khalq to failure.”
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