Being established and active for more than forty years, Mojahedin Khalq Organization MKO suffers the lack of a well depicted history of its past. The book The Iranian Mojahedin is written, as the author states, “to piece together the history of the organization and to answer a number of basic questions”. It is a well developed record of the organization’s background, founders, formation, ideology, social and political status and more. The organization has deliberately avoided presenting a detailed account of its past and history but the book’s records and analyses well depicts the facts about the Mojahedin underground organization.
It has always been a big question why Mojahedin, claiming to play a key role in Iranian social and political context, have refrained to present a complete and well developed sketch of its own past. In spite of its many publications, the organization has issued only a brief booklet entitled “An account of the formation and short history of the people’s Mojahedin Organization of from 1965 to 1975″. Mr. Abrahamian commenting on the booklet states that:
This pamphlet provides no more than a series of short hagiographies of its founding members. The organization, being a political one, naturally tends to mystify and romanticize its past, as well as to gloss over such embarrassments as shifts in day-to-day policy and modifications in general ideology. What is more, the organization, being an underground one, has no choice but to remain silent on many questions of importance to the historian-questions such as the exact composition of the present leadership, as well as the identities of former leaders who, for one reason or another, have fallen by the wayside. Page 2