Massoud Radjavi

Massoud Radjavi (born in 1948) is the president of the National council of the resistance of Iran, (NCIR), which it founded in 1981 and which gathers the various organizations of Iranian opposition, particularly OMPI, the Organization of Moudjahiddines of the Iranian People.

During its studies of right to the University of Teheran, Massoud Radjavi adheres to the Organization of Moujahideen of the people of Iran (OMPI) in 1967 and becomes the youngest member of the central committee of this organization of opposition to the dictatorship of the Shah. In 1971, all the leaders of the movement are stopped, then carried out. Massoud Radjavi, condemned to death, sees its sentence commuted to custodial sentence with perpetuity thanks to an international campaign carried out from Geneva by his/her brother Kazem Radjavi, professor of political sciences to Geneva, which will be finally assassinated in 1990 by the secret services iraniens.

Massoud Radjavi then spends seven years in the prisons of the Shah and finds freedom only little before the Iranian Révolution of 1979. It reorganizes OMPI then, and is presented in 1980, at the time of the first presidential election in Iran. It is candidate of coalition of left parties and center and ethnic minorities and religious, but its candidature is cancelled by Khomeiny him even, which declares those which did not vote for the constitution, do not have right to be presented. In June 1981 a great peaceful demonstration organized by OMPI and claiming the respect of freedoms is repressed in blood. OMPI launches out then in the armed struggle against the islamist mode.

His first wife is killed during armed conflicts of beginning of the year 1980; it Marie then with Firouzeh Banished Sadr, the girl of the first president of Iran, Banished Sadr. This marriage will not last a long time and then Massoud Radjavi marries Maryam Radjavi in 1985. This one was elected by the Parliament of the National council of the resistance of Iran (NCIR) president of the Republic for the transitional period which will follow the fall of the mode of the ayatollahs.

The group however, will take a sectarian and secret form with the passing of years, while being criticized more and more for its not very scrupulous methods (removals, sequestrations, attacks, embezzlements, etc) and its collaboration with Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq where the group is located since 1985, lasting the war between Iran and Iraq.

Nowadays, the NCIR was registered on the list of the terrorist organizations by Washington and continuous to be placed under monitoring by various intelligence services, in particular French.

In Iran, the group is seen of an eye being wary by most of the population, mainly because of its connections with the former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein.

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