many Iranians conclude the U.S. is supporting a terrorist organization
… The Mujahideen-e-Khalq is one of the oldest — and nastiest — of the Iranian opposition groups. After originally supporting the Iranian revolution, the MEK broke with Khomeini and relocated to Iraq in the early stages of the Iran-Iraq War. It was so closely connected to Saddam that MEK fighters not only assisted the Iraqis in the Iran-Iraq War but also helped Saddam put down the 1991 Kurdish uprising.