Dokument #1225335
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Sources currently available at the IRBDC in
Ottawa indicate that there were large demonstrations by the
Mojahedin and their supporters in Tehran through 1980-81. Ervand
Abrahamian, in his book Radical Islam: The Iranian
Mojahedin, states that in the time period February to May 1980
there was a Mojahedin rally, "which drew 200 000 participants"
(1989, p. 199). The same source claims that the Mojahedin supported
a "series of mass demonstrations, notably on 5 March, 27 April and
13-14 June 1981. On March 5 at Tehran University Bani-Sadr
addressed a rally of 100 000 ... On April 27 the Mojahedin
organized a mass march in central Tehran ... which attracted over
150 000" (p.216).
These reports are corroborated in Dilip
Hiro's Iran Under the Ayatollahs which states that in June
of 1981 the Mojahedin, and other supporters of Bani-Sadr, held a
rally which "brought out an estimated 200 000 people into the
streets of central Tehran" (1987, p. 182)
No further corroborating evidence is
currently available among the sources at the IRBDC in Ottawa.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abrahamian, Ervand. Radical Islam:
The Iranian Mojahedin, London: I.B. Tauris, 1989.
Hiro, Dilip. Iran Under the
Ayatollahs, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.