Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas


The Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, simply known as Fadaiyan-e-Khalq was a Marxist-Leninist underground guerrilla organization in Iran.

Ideology

Ideologically, the group pursued an Anti-imperialist agenda and embraced armed propaganda to justify its revolutionary armed struggle against Iran's monarchy system, and believed in Materialism. They rejected reformism, and were inspired by thoughts of Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, and Régis Debray.
They criticized the National Front and the Liberation Movement as "Petite bourgeoisie paper organizations still preaching the false hope of peaceful change". Fedai Guerrillas initially criticized the Soviet Union and the Tudeh Party as well, however they later abandoned the stance as a result of cooperation with the socialist camp.
Bijan Jazani, known as the "intellectual father" of the organization, contributed to its ideology by writing a series of pamphlets such as "Struggle against the Shah's Dictatorship", "What a Revolutionary Must Know" and "How the Armed Struggle Will Be Transformed into a Mass Struggle?". The pamphlets were followed by Masoud Ahmadzadeh's treatise "Armed Struggle: Both a Strategy and a Tactic" and "The Necessity of Armed Struggle and the Rejection of the Theory of Survival" by Amir Parviz Pouyan.

Electoral history

Leadership

The group was governed by collective leadership. Before the Iranian Revolution, its six-members leadership did not use the term 'central committee'.
#NameAlias
1Ahmad Gholamian-LangerudiHadi
2Qorbanali RahimpurMajid
3Qasem Siyadati
4Farrokh Negahdar
5Reza Ghebra'iMansour
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#NameAlias
1Ahmad Gholamian-LangerudiHadi
2Qorbanali RahimpurMajid
3Mehdi Fattapur
4Farrokh Negahdar
5Reza Ghebra'iMansour
6Mostafa Madani
7Kazem Mobini
8Asghar SoltanabadiKiumars
9Ali Tavasoli
10Haydar
11Akbar