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The People's Mujahedin: Iran's Exiled Opposition

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    -61% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : In 2013, at the request of the US and UN, other countries -- notably Albania -- agreed to take in members of the group.
41% : Their leader Massoud Rajavi created the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in France.
37% : Those who survived were chased out of Iran.
36% : The Mujahedin then set up in Iraq at the height of the war with Iran, fighting alongside Saddam's forces.
36% : In 2009 the European Union removed the Mujahedin from its list of terrorist organisations, where it had been since 2002.
35% : Rajavi was expelled from France in 1986 amid a warming of relations between Paris and Tehran.
34% : The People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) is an Iranian opposition movement in exile that battled the Shah from the 1960s and was once allied to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini before falling foul of his Islamic regime.
34% : The People's Mujahedin of Iran is no longer on the EU or US lists of terrorist organisations
33% : Its fighters were later denounced as traitors for fighting alongside Iraqi troops in the latter part of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War which began when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980, a year after the Islamic revolution.
33% : Mujahedin fighters have claimed responsibility for several operations in Iran, including against oil installations in 1993, and have been blamed for dozens of murders.
31% : It was outlawed in Iran in 1981, the year authorities accused it of a bomb attack that killed 74 people including Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, the regime's number two at the time.

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