Mojahedin Khalq Leader on trial in USA
Taleb-Jedi, 52, escaped serious harm. But more than five years later, she remains stuck in legal limbo in New York, facing federal terrorism charges labeling her a leader of a militant group(Mujahedin) advocating the violent overthrow of the Iranian government. … Originally a Marxist-Islamist group, the People’s Mujahedeen/PMOI formed in the mid-1960s to oppose the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During the 1970s, it killed U.S. citizens working in Tehran, supported the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy there and participated in Iran’s Islamic Revolution, according to the State Department…