Matin Research Journal

Matin Research Journal

Imam Khomeini and the Peoples’ Mujahedeen Organization (MKO) A Critical study of Memoirs of Lutfullah Meithami

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Member of faculty member of the History Department of Imam Khomeini International University
Abstract
Lutfullah Meithami spent seven months in 1963 in the Shah’s prison on political charges of cooperation with the Freedom Movement of Iran. After his release from jail he joined the founders of the MKO.
He has written his memoirs of this period in two volumes titled, From Freedom Movement to Mujahedeen and Those Who Left. He has tried to write down the untold stories of this period and depict the struggle atmosphere of 1950s-1970s.
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