Opposition To Khomeini
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service investigated Khadir and his family because of their support for the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), an organization that opposed the government of Ayatollah Khomeini and which faced fierce repression by the Iranian government. Khadir declared in an interview that he was very involved in the movement saying "I was the main facilitator of the opponents of the mullahs regime" but that in the mid 1980s he took his distance from this organization because he disagreed with their "autocratic turn" and their support for violence against the Iranian regime. The United States in 1997, The Council of the European Union in 2002, Canada in 2005, Iraq, and Iran have designated the PMOI a terrorist organization. On January 26, 2009, the Council of the European Union removed the PMOI from the EU terror list. The group said it was the outcome of a “seven-year-long legal and political battle”.
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