50 years of struggle for Freedom in Iran | News, Politics | GroundReport.com – Latest World News & Opinions

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Maryam Rajavi - Great gathering Iranian Resistance in Vylpnt Paris

PMOI protests in 1979

The Iranian revolution has not dead 
The 20th of June, Saturday commemorates the 34th anniversary of the birth of the Iranian Resistance to gain the most basic human rights of the Iranian people and to establish a democracy in Iran. On that day Ayatollah Khomeini himself gave the orders for the Guards Corps to open fire on half a million pro-democracy Iranians protestors. Many members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) have sacrificed their lives in the campaign to oust the mullahs. But what has their struggle been about?

34 years of Resistance against religious tyranny in Iran

34 years of Resistance against religious tyranny in Iran

Massoud Rajavi, the leader of  Iranian Resistance

Saturday June 20 marks the 34th anniversary of the start of the Iranian Resistance to obtain the most basic rights of Iranians and to establish human rights and democracy. On that day, Khomeini personally ordered the Guards Corps to open fire on a peaceful protest by half-a-million pro-democracy Iranians.
Lines Are Drawn
“Our enemy is neither in the United States, nor the Soviet Union, nor Kurdistan, but right here, right under our nose, in Tehran.” The Mujahedin's [PMOI/MEK]leader Massoud Rajavi: :"have never accepted the Khomeini regime as an adequate Islamic government". When Khomeini took power, the Mujahedin [PMOI/MEK] called for continued revolution, but said they would work for change within the legal framework of the new regime.