Massoud Rajavi
Massoud Rajavi ( Persian مسعود رجوی Masud Radschawi , born August 18, 1948 in Tabas , Iran ) was a co-founder of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and ideological leader of the People's Mujahedin ( Modschahedin-e Chalgh ). He has beenconsidered "disappeared" or deadsince the Iraq war in 2003.
family
Massoud Rajavi is the youngest of five brothers and, according to the NCRI, should have a degree in political science from the University of Tehran . His eldest brother, Kazem Rajavi, was murdered in Geneva in April 1990 . His only sister, Monireh, was executed in 1988. Ashraf, his first wife, married Rajavi in the summer of 1979, according to the NCRI. She died in February 1982 in Tehran . The separation from his second wife, a daughter of Abolhassan Banisadr , took place in exile in Paris. He married his third wife, Maryam Azodanlu , in 1985.
Political orientation
During his time as a high school student, Massoud Rajavi was a sympathizer of Ayatollah Mahmud Taleghani and Mehdi Bāzargān's " freedom movement ". At the university he came into contact with the People's Mujahedin and joined them in 1966. He was in direct contact with a founder of the People's Mujahideen, Mohammad Hanifnedschad, and later became a member of the Central Committee. Massoud Rajavi was arrested in 1971 and remained in custody until 1979. During 1979, Rajavi began a series of lectures on philosophy at Sharif University of Technology . 10,000 students attended these lectures each week, and over 100,000 across Iran watched their video footage. The scripts were published in the hundreds of thousands each week and distributed throughout Iran. Massoud Rajavi hoped that Ruhollah Khomeini would gain a share in power by supporting the Islamic Revolution . To this end, Ahmad Chomeini , the Ayatollah's son , is said to have contacted Rajavi from Paris . The People's Mujahideen, who were significantly involved in the overthrow of the Shah's regime, lost the dispute over supremacy in Iran. In the first parliamentary elections in March 1980 , the mujahideen won only 20 seats, while the Islamic Republican Party won 130 seats.
On June 4, 1980, Khomeini closed the universities , a base of the People's Mujahedin. In early 1981, Rajavi explained in a series of detailed interviews the position of the People's Mujahedin towards Khomeini and other political currents at the time and suggested the formation of a front against the mullah. In response to the bloody persecution of its members, the People's Mujahideen carried out several heavy bomb attacks on members of the Iranian government in 1981, including a. Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi , Mohammed Dschawad Bahonar , Seyyed Ali Chamene'i , as well as the building of the Islamic Republican Party with over 70 dead. After the subsequent ban on the People's Mojahedin Rajavi fled July 28, 1981 along with Abolhassan Banisadr aboard a Boeing 707 of the Iranian air force , after France .
exile
In 1981 Massoud Rajavi and Abolhassan Banisadr founded the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Paris . In 1985, the year of the marriage between Maryam Azodanlu and Massoud Rajavi, the People's Mujahedin saw the “ideological revolution” during which all couples were divorced and women were given leadership positions within the organization, counterpointing what the organization saw to put misogynist politics in Iran. Maryam Rajavi was named the organization's "elected president" and an excessive cult of personality was installed around the leadership couple.
Massoud Rajavi was forced to leave France by the French government in June 1986. The new headquarters of the People's Mujahedin and NCRI ( Camp Ashraf ) was built near Baghdad with the benevolence and financial support of Saddam Hussein . In the First Gulf War , the mujahideen (as the "National Freedom Army of Iran") took part on the side of the Iraqis under the leadership of Massoud Rajavi. The mujahideen received weapons, vehicles, training and financial support from Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi secret service. In return, they later became active as mercenaries for the Iraqi military and participated, among other things. a. of the bloody suppression of the Kurdish and Shiite uprisings in Iraq by the Iraqi army in 1991.
Until 2000, NLA commandos carried out attacks on military and police buildings and attacks on representatives of the Iranian state and US soldiers, until in 2003 the Camp Ashraf base was taken by American troops during the Iraq war. Since that time, Massoud Rajavi is considered to have disappeared.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Verfassungsschutz NRW, August 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Image change of the People's Modjahedin Iran, from guerrilla to democratic exile movement? (accessed on February 20, 2011)
- ↑ economist.com, April 8, 2009 Iranian dissidents in Iraq (accessed February 20, 2011)
- ↑ AAWA-Aktuell No. 3, August 2005 (PDF; 706 kB) Where is Massoud Rajavi?
- ↑ a b The President of the NCRI - Massoud Rajavi
- ↑ One person's story - Mr. Kazem Rajavi
- ↑ Women's Activism for Freedom in Iran ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ nytimes.com of September 24, 2005 An implacable opponent to the mullahs of Iran
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2980279.stm
- ↑ Islamic Fundamentalism ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dynamic Nature of the Quran
- ↑ http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/IRAN_1980_E.PDF
- ^ Missing the Mark on Iran
- ↑ Former Iranian People's Mujahedin in Iraq with no way out . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 26, 2008
- ↑ Interview with Batoul Soltani ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on achtung-mojahedin.org
- ↑ a b Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI) "Information on the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI)". Retrieved February 20, 2011
- ↑ Bahman Nirumand: "The one with the black folders"
- ↑ Press release of the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ European Parliament Meetingdocs
- ↑ globalsecurity - PMOI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rajavi, Massoud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radjavi, Massoud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician, leader of the PMOI (People's Mojahedin) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tabas , Iran |