A major gathering is being held at the
Villepinte Exhibition Center outside of Paris, France. The gathering is
focused on Iran policy and at the center of the case is the People’s
Mojahedin Organization of Iran. The People’s Mojahedin is also known by
its Persian name, Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK and it is the main
constituent group in the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the
leading coalition advocating for the cause of regime change driven by
the Iranian people and their expatriate allies.
The Free Iran rally has been growing
every year. The 2017 gathering is expected to keep pace with the
previous few years, with upwards of 100,000 supporters of the MEK
traveling to France from throughout the world. Naturally, the
participants will mostly represent Iranian expatriate communities, but
each year’s event also draws hundreds of politicians and foreign policy
experts who recognize the global value of the MEK and the 10-point plan
that NCRI President Maryam Rajavi has laid out for the future of #Iran.
A Long Conflict between the Clerical Regime and the MEK
The origins of the MEK date back to
before the 1979 Iranian Revolution., the MEK helped to overthrow the
dictatorship of Shah Reza Pahlavi, but it quickly became a bitter enemy
of the emerging the religious fascism under the pretext of Islamic
Republic. To this day, the #MEK and NCRI describe Ruhollah Khomenei and
his associates as having co-opted a popular revolution in order to
empower themselves while imposing a fundamentalist view of Islam onto
the people of Iran.
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