Mousa khiabani biography books

Period of Iranian history from 1979 to 1983

Following the Iranian revolution, which overthrew the Shah of Iran in February 1979, Iran was in a "revolutionary crisis mode" until 1982 or 1983 when forces loyal to the revolution's leader, AyatollahRuhollah Khomeini, consolidated power. During this period, Iran's economy and the apparatus of governm

Naficy, Hamid. "2 Documenting the Uprising, the Revolution, and the Emerging Opposition". A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2012, pp. 47-114. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393535-007

Naficy, H. (2012). 2 Documenting the Uprising, the Revolution, and the Emerging Opposition. In A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984 (pp. 47-114). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393535-007

Naficy, H. 2012. 2 Documenting the Uprising, the Revolution, and the Emerging Opposition. A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984. New York, USA: Duke University Press, pp. 47-114. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393535-007

Naficy, Hamid. "2 Documenting the Uprising, the Revolution, and the Emerging Opposition" In A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984, 47-114. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393535-007

Naficy H. 2 Documenting the Uprising, the Revolution, and the Emerging Opposition. In: A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984. New York, USA: Duke University Press; 2012. p.47-114. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393535-007

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Mousa Nasir Oghli Khiabani aliases Musa Khiabani was a veteran member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization and among the central committee of the organization in 1970s. After the revolution Musa was the second most important leader of the MKO after Massoud Rajavi.

Ervand Abrahamian in his book “Radical Islam; the Iranian Mojahedin” pens:”

The revived Mojahedin was under the firm control of Masud Rajavi and his hand-picked entourage, most of whom had been in his commune in Qasr Prison. Musa Khiabani, Rajavi’s right-hand man, had been among the sixty-nine tried in 1972. Even then, despite his young age, he had been considered important enough to warrant a life sentence. The son of a humble and devout shopkeeper on the Tabriz bazaar, Khiabani frequently participated in the Moharram flagellation ceremonies. Graduating from the local high school, he won a state scholarship to study physics in Tehran University where he joined the Mojahedin and volunteered to go to Lebanon for guerilla training. En route, he and his colleagues were intercepted in Dubai; it was this that prompted the famous 1971 plane hijacking. One of the very last of the shah’s prisoners to be released, Khiabani wasted no time in returning to Tabriz to rebuild the Mojahedin. Until his death in February 1982, Khiabani and Rajavi acted as the organization’s main spokesmen, and consequently outsiders tended to view the two as equals; but insiders knew Rajavi to be pre-eminent.”

Musa Khiabani killed along with Ashraf Rabiei and 20 other members of the organization in an attack to their team house on February 8, 1982.

Political party in Iran

The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) (Persian: سازمان مجاهدین خلق ایران, romanized: Sâzmân-ye Mojâhedin-ye Khalğ-ye Irân), is an Iranian dissident organization that was armed until 2003 but has since transitioned into a political group. Its headquarters are currently in Albania. The group's ideology was influenced by Islam and revolutionary Marxism; and while they denied Marxist influences, their revolutionary reinterpretation of Shia Islam was shaped by the writings of Ali Shariati. After the Iranian Revolution, the MEK opposed the new theocratic Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, seeking to replace it with its own government. At one point the MEK was Iran's "largest and most active armed dissident group", and it is still sometimes presented by Western political backers as a major Iranian opposition group. The MEK is known to be deeply unpopular today within Iran, largely due to its siding with Iraq in the Iran–Iraq Wa