Greetings.

Let me know what you would like to know about that group, as a lot of info (although there is wiiiide variance of treatment and balance in many instances) in English and Persian is around about MEK.

Consensus is of a paramilitary semi-cult -- formed and supported by Saddam Hussein -- centered around the personalities of the husband and wife who are the current leaders, living in a guarded villa outside Paris.

My Iranian American sources here in California advise that there are effectively TWO main MEK elements:

o the main batch, largely concentrated in Europe (esp. France) and adjacent counties

o the group of MEK members, cohorts and fans/auxiliaries around DC/MD/NOVA that is hustling the Congress and DOD

--- secondary/spin-off group is a batch of MEK partisans/apologists/romanticizers active here in Los Angeles and Orange County, but they encounter a much-less-receptive and critical atmosphere, esp. from those who were favorable to the late Shah.