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Iran
Index
Like the Mojahedin, several Marxist political parties have
maintained clandestine cells inside the country. Tudeh leaders, who
managed to escape the government's mass arrests and forcible
dissolution of their party in early 1983, reestablished the Tudeh
in exile in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The
Fadayan Majority, which later in 1983 suffered the same fate as the
Tudeh, was decimated by government persecution; its surviving
members eventually joined the Tudeh. The Komala (Komala-ye
Shoreshgari-ye Zahmat Keshan-e Kordestan-e Iran, or Committee of
the Revolutionary Toilers of Iranian Kordestan), a predominantly,
but not exclusively, Kurdish party, had rejected as early as 1979
the Tudeh and Fadayan Majority policy of cooperation with the
regime and continued to fight against central government forces up
to the end of 1985, when it was forced to retreat to Iraqi
Kurdistan. The Fadayan Minority had joined the Mojahedin uprising
in 1981 and consequently lost most of its cadres in the ensuing
confrontation with the regime. It has party offices in several West
European cities and on university campuses in the United States.
The Paykar, which also joined the Mojahedin's unsuccessful
rebellion, was largely destroyed by 1982, although secret cells
were believed still to exist in 1987.
Data as of December 1987
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