Iran’s Revolutionary Guard: MEK Deaths in Iraq ‘Divine Vengeance’ Link to the source thenakedfacts.blogspot/2013/09/irans-revolutionary-guard-mek-deaths-in.html The People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI) said on Sunday that Iraqi forces had killed 52 of their members in a raid at Camp Ashraf, the group’s longtime base in Diyala, Iraq. The Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which is how they are known in Iran, was a leftist-Islamist group which left Iran after the 1979 revolution over a power struggle with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. During the Iran-Iraq war, the MEK took refuge in Iraq. Immediately after the announcement of a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq, the group, with initial air support from Iraq, invaded Iran, but eventually retreated after thousands of its members were killed. Many of the group’s members are believed to have been executed in Iran in 1988. The Iranian government blames the MEK for acts of terrorism in the 1980s against government officials and for the assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientists over the last several years.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:40:14 +0000
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