Involved in the Uprising, 2 Anti-Iranian Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists were Hanged

JAKARTA - At least two terrorists affiliated with the anti-Iranian terrorist group, Mojahedin Khalq, were executed.

The execution of the two men, members of a group also called Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MAK), was carried out by hanging.

AP reported that the two were identified as Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi. Both were executed in Iran on Monday, March 30.

For Daneshvarkar, it has been years of detention.

Amnesty International said the men's sentences were handed down by a Tehran court on charges of armed rebellion against the state after a trial in October 2024.

The terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq alias MEK was founded in 1965.

During the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the MEK carried out several armed attacks against Iran in coordination with Saddam Hussein's army, and lost much domestic support in the process.

In post-Saddam Iraq, the BBC reported the group disarmed and eventually moved to Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad.

It is estimated that there are more than 2,000 followers in the camp, while the MEK leaders are based in France.