Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization

Definitions of Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization

1. noun

   a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah
   synonyms: MEK, MKO, People's Mujahidin of Iran

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   FTO, foreign terrorist organization, terrorist group, terrorist organization

   a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals