Iranians hate the Mojahedin-e Khalq not only because it is a corrupt cult that helped bring Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power, but also because of their subsequent behavior as mercenaries for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

As Khomeini turned on his former supporters, purged them, and, in many cases, executed them, the Mojahedin rank-and-file defected to Saddam’s Iraq. There, they integrated into Saddam’s Republican Guards, attacking not only Iranian forces against the backdrop of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, but also Iraqi Kurds and those who revolted against Saddam’s tyranny in 1991. Today, Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, known in Arabic as the Hashd al Shaabi, follow the Mojahedin-e Khalq’s trajectory.

Word leaking from inside Iran suggests a massacre has taken place as the Islamic Republic tries desperately to restore its control. Because Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei does not fully trust his Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to follow his orders and murder protesters that might include........

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