mujahidin-e khalq organization

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mujahidin-e khalq organization - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization
      n 1: 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 [syn: Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization,
           MKO, MEK, People's Mujahidin of Iran]