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Monday, February 12, 2007

Iranian Chalabi?


People's Mojahedin of Iran (Monafiqeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq) organization are as exotic as they make them.

Considered as a cult by some, as an terrorist organisation by the others, it is famous by its strict requirement that the women share the duties and responsibilities of the movement. Hence 50% of the "leader" grades are given to women - this is unparalleled in the (not only Muslim) world.
Another reason for fame was it's leader's insistence that all the followers decided, individually and without pressure to dissolve marriages they were in.

They make a dashing sight - disciplined and well trained, with women wearing the signature red scarfs on their heads - the epitome of gender equality in action.

The wife of (now believed departed) dear leader Rassoud Rajavi, Myriam Rajavi, is living in some style in Paris.

People's Mojahedin of Iran is fighting Teocratic Iran since 1979. Using the principle that enemy fo my enemy is my ally, they have bases is Iraq and sided with Saddam Hussein during Iran-Iraq war.

The sleekness of the new website from which Myriam Rajavi is presenting herself as a "President of Iran in exile" makes me wonder if by any chance she is not joisting for the position of head of state of "liberated" Iran when Americans invade their country.
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