MER Article Abrahamian, Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin The roots of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) reach back to the Liberation Movement of Iran (LMI), a modernist liberal-religious party formed in 1961. The founders of the LMI, virtually all educated members of the traditional middle class, opposed the Shah’s rule on both political and moral gro Mansour Farhang • 4 min read
Two Books on the Iran-Iraq War Shirin Tahir-Kheli and Shaheen Ayubi, The Iran-Iraq War: New Weapons, Old Conflicts (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983). Tareq Y. Ismael, Iraq and Iran: Roots of Conflict (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1982). Much of the growing literature on the Iran-Iraq war is devoted to how the conflic Mansour Farhang • 1 min read
