he People\u2019s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran<\/a>\u00a0(PMOI or MEK). Their crime was that they remained steadfast and said No to Khomeini.<\/p>\nThe regime has begun the destruction of some of the sites of the mass graves.<\/p>\n
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Iran Iranfreedom Dr ALejo Vidal-Quadras: The vast majority of the victims\u200c of\u00a01988 massacre\u00a0 were affiliated to the main opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran\u00a0(PMOI or MEK). Their crime was that they remained steadfast and said No to Khomeini. The regime has begun the destruction of some of the sites of the mass graves. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[199,35,59,52,28,26,27,71,91],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes","tag-1988-massacre","tag-iran","tag-iranian-opposition","tag-iranian-resistance","tag-maryam-rajavi","tag-mek","tag-ncri","tag-regime-change","tag-alternative"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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