a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran''s pro-Western policies of modernization and anti-communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic f
a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah