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WI: the MEK leads the Iranian Revolution instead of Khomeini

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NotDavidSoslan

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Today, the Mujahedeen El-Khalq is a bizarre cult, but during and shortly before the Iranian revolution, they were one of the major threats to the Shah, supporting a mix of revolutionary socialism and Shia Islam.
Assuming the Ayatollah Khomeini got killed by SAVAK agents in Paris years earlier, and Massoud Rajavi led a popular uprising of unemployed working-class Iranians that overthrew and exiled the Shah, how would Iranian and world history be affected? What policies and government structure would the MEK Pursue?
 
I see a relationship forming between Tehran and Beijing. Maybe the new regime is close to Yugoslavia or Albania also. Depending on how overtly Shia the new regime is, there could be reverberations across the region. Perhaps an Iran aligned to Beijing sees things go differently with Iraq and Syria, as well as with the Palestinian cause.
 
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