"The MEK is an Islamic political opposition group with socialist tendencies. Founded in Iran in 1965, it took up arms against the ruling Pahlavi dynasty, waging bombing campaigns against the Shah's government and US targets in the 1970s and supporting Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1978/1979 Islamic Revolution. Shortly after the revolution, however, the MEK fell out with the new rulers in Tehran and was banned in the country. It then went into exile, continuing its opposition activities from abroad."
"A fortified camp in Manze, a small village in central Albania near the capital, Tirana, is home to some 3,000 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI or Mujahideen-e Khalq, MEK). These members have been in the country since the Albanian government agreed to take them in in 2013 at the request of the US and the United Nations."
About 3,000 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (MEK) live in a fortified camp in Manze, Albania, after relocation in 2013 at the request of the United States and the United Nations. The MEK, founded in 1965, is an Islamic, socialist-leaning opposition group that waged armed campaigns against the Pahlavi dynasty, supported the 1978–79 revolution, then fell out with Tehran and was banned. The group later based itself in Iraq and ran military operations against Iran during the Iran–Iraq war. The US designated the MEK as a terrorist organization in 1997 and removed that designation in 2012. The MEK publicly revealed Iran's secret uranium-enrichment program in 2002 and was expelled from Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ousting. Recent protests in Iran began with an acute economic shock—currency collapse and inflation—that rapidly politicized long-standing grievances.
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