Word: rajavi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mousa Khiabani, 35, operational commander of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist guerrilla organization seeking to overthrow the Iranian government, was moving to a new hideout. With him were his pregnant wife Azar Reza'i and Ashraf Rabi'i, the wife of Paris-based Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi, and the Rajavis' year-old son. When Khiabani stepped out of his bulletproof Peugeot, a plainclothes Islamic Guard spotted him and radioed for help. Within minutes hundreds of government security forces converged on the scene...
...topple Khomeini. It demonstrated that the guerrillas have retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles of reaction ary rule...
Despite the ever rising level of violence in Iran, Washington feels the Khomeini regime is in no serious peril. "There is no evidence that it has lost either popular support or control over the mechanism of government," said one source. Banisadr and Rajavi were more optimistic. From their headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, they announced a program for the transitional government they hope to form "when Khomeini falls and before new elections are held." Predictably, Banisadr would be President, and Rajavi Prime Minister. Boasted a Mujahedin leader: "We are already a state within a state." -By Henry Mutter. Reported...
...Kremlin is keeping its options open. The Palestine Liberation Organization is caught between its initial attraction to Khomeini, who has steadily supported the Palestinian cause, and the Mujahedin, whose secular views are closer to its own. Hani al-Hassan, a top adviser to P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, visited Rajavi in France last week...
Some 20 miles northwest of Paris, in the bucolic town of Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent van Gogh painted and died, the afternoon calm was broken only by the sound of workers adding another wing to the residence-in-exile of Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi. Both the setting and the air of expectancy that pervaded last week were reminiscent of another place and time-when an exiled Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini held forth in the little village of Neauphle-le-Château just before Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979. As half a dozen visitors waited under...