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This is the crucial flaw that the Iranian Left in exile fail to understand. Something that cost them during the revolution as well in regards to the MEK. Mujahideen El-Khelq had participated in overthrowing he Shah, there contributions to fighting imperialism was plainly essential.
However their miscalculation about the core contradiction posy revolutionary Iran faced condemned the Communist movement in Iran decades of retreats. They sided with Sadaam's Iraq, a nation acting as an agent of imperialism in that circumstance, during the Iran-Iraq War, bombing the parliament building. This would lead to the mass executions of all kinds of Communists and other leftists.
They place the reactionary elements of the Iranian state on a comparable level with western imperialists.