The People’s Mojahedin of Iran or the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK also PMOI MKO; Persian: سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران sāzmān-e mojāhedin-e khalq-e irān) is an Iranian leftist revolutionary organization that participated in the 1979 Revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi Shah. Following the conflict with Ayatollah Khomeini MEK started an open war and most of its members fled abroad.
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