MEK supporters in Canada celebrated the 54th<\/sup> anniversary of MEK\/PMOI\u2019s founding. In a ceremony in Toronto, they put flowers in front of the pictures of MEK founders, executed by the Shah regime on May 25, 1972. <\/p>\n\n\n\n MEK supporters in Ottawa held a similar ceremony and commemorated the founders of the Iranian opposition movement. They also celebrated the event by listening to the speeches of Mr. Rajavi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Norway, MEK supporters also held a ceremony in Oslo, where they celebrated the anniversary of the main Iranian opposition group by installing large posters of MEK\u2019s founders and playing speeches of Mr. Massoud Rajavi<\/a>, the leader of the Iranian Resistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The PMOI\/MEK was founded in 1965 by three intellectual students, Mohammad Hanif-Nejad<\/a>, Said Mohsen<\/a> and Ali-Asghar Badizadegan<\/a> as an organization aiming to overthrow the Shah regime and establish a democratic state. In 1971, the Savak, Shah\u2019s secret police, arrested the founders of MEK and members of the organization\u2019s central council. A year later, the Shah regime executed the founders along with two other senior MEK members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After the death of the founders, Mr. Massoud Rajavi<\/a>, who was a member of MEK\u2019s Central Council, was elected to the leadership of MEK, which became very popular after the 1979 revolution which toppled the Shah regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MEK-min.jpg\")
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