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PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDIN OF IRAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does People's Mujahidin of Iran mean? 

PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDIN OF IRAN (noun)
  The noun PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDIN OF IRAN has 1 sense:

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 Shahplay

  Familiarity information: PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDIN OF IRAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDIN OF IRAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

MEK; MKO; Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization; People's Mujahidin of Iran

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Iran; Islamic Republic of Iran; Persia (a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil)


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