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Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
Mohammad Mohaddessin was born in 1955 in the holy city of Qom, central
Iran, to a father who was a known clergyman and in a strictly
practicing family.
As a student on Electrical engineering, he was
active in anti-Shah student movements of the seventies. That is when he
joined the Mojahedin. He was arrested in 1976 and imprisoned, to be
freed in 1979 only after the Shah left the country and his regime had a
few days left.
Mohaddessin was active in the anti-fundamentalist movement of the
mullahs rule's first years. Afterwards he was appointed in charge of
the political section of the Mojahedin. In 1992 he was assigned
chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of
Resistance, a post he has held ever since.
Mohaddessin's deep knowledge of the Islamic fundamentalist thought
stems from his religious – clerical background being grown up in a
clerical family. With his father an anti- Khomeini regime clergyman,
and having himself experienced different aspect of fundamentalist
teachings and practices along with years of political and ideological
struggle against the Shah and Khomeini, Mohaddessin has been an
outspoken critic of Islamic fundamentalism through no less than one
hundred press conferences, speeches, and writings on the subject around
the globe. He is the author of several books among them "Islamic
Fundamentalism, the new global threat." |
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