Word: rajavi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season ends next month, the Iraqi regime has mounted a broad diplomatic effort to improve Baghdad's ties with the West and buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later, Aziz and Rajavi issued a joint communiqué calling for a halt to hostilities and a negotiated settlement...
Although it was highly unusual for Aziz to deal with Rajavi, Tehran had more reason to be concerned about Aziz's meetings in Paris with Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali and with French officials. Egypt has provided Iraq with ammunition and spare parts. In response, the Iraqi regime, a hard-line Arab government that once advocated the ostracism of Egypt after it signed a peace treaty with Israel, has become an outspoken proponent of Egypt's return to the Arab fold. After meeting with Ghali, Aziz said that Baghdad was committed to the "total...
...morale has dropped, discontent with the Khomeini regime has increased. So has violent opposition. Last month Massoud Rajavi, the Paris-based leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leading guerrilla organization opposed to Khomeini's theocratic rule, ordered his followers to attack Khomeini's "military-police apparatus." Since then, more than 300 Islamic Guards and government officials have died in Mujahedin attacks...
...government forces to provide an escape route for the auto. Khiabani, though wounded, managed to drive off, but an Islamic Guard scored a direct hit on the Peugeot with a Soviet-made RPG-7 antitank rocket launcher. All of the Mujahedin, including the bodyguards and the two women, died. Rajavi's son survived...
From Paris, where he has been in exile since fleeing Iran last summer with former President Abolhassan Banisadr, Rajavi acknowledged that the Mujahedin had suffered a damaging blow. But he vowed that "the battle for freedom and democracy will continue." He denied government reports of other shootouts with the Mujahedin, saying they were "useless psychological warfare." He also said he had appointed a new commander in chief, but did not divulge his name. Mujahedin sources said, however, that the new chief gave his first order the day after Khiabani's death. "Take no rash retaliatory action," he told...