04.2003 - Source: UK Border Agency (Home Office)

Country Assessment - April 2003 ("Country Assessment - April 2003") [#13446],  [ID 9359]

"5.176. Activities of opposition groups such as Tudeh, Iran Paad, Komala, and Fedayeen have not been evident in Iran in recent years. [19] Over 1,000 members of such dissident groups were executed in 1988/1989, including 38 named members of Tudeh. [2f]"

Document(s): Open document

11.2001 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

7th European Country of Origin Information Seminar Berlin, 11 - 12 June 2001: Final Report - Iran ("7th European Country of Origin Information Seminar Berlin, 11 - 12 June 2001: Final Report - Iran") [#7661],  [ID 9360]

"Especially in the early years after the revolution most existing opposition groups in Iran were brutally and systematically crushed. Members of groups such as the Mudjahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), the Organization of Fedayan (majority and minority), the Tudeh Party as well as the Communist Party of Iran, who had actively participated in toppling the Shah were one by one rounded up, prosecuted, executed and made to inform on other groups or on their own members. Although this slow elimination process happened in the 1980s this does not mean that individuals who had affiliations with one of the above groups do not face any risk of persecution today.

As a consequence of the systematic repression after the Revolution, at present there is hardly any organized traditional opposition to the present Islamic Government. Although abroad there are many opposition groups, ranging from leftist parties, to nationalist, monarchist, ethnic or clerical Islamic groups, none of these groups has any power basis inside Iran."

Document(s): cois2001-irn.pdf

06.1998 - Source: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Update to the Official Report of 5 June 1997 on the Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Update to the Official Report of 5 June 1997 on the Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran") [#10531],  [ID 9361]

"As already stated, as a result of the heavy repression in the early years of the Islamic revolution, the (secular) opposition was practically reduced to silence. No activities by opposition groups such as Tudeh, Iran Paad, Komala, Fedayeen, Darafash Kaviani, etc. have been observed."

Document(s): neth-irn0698.pdf