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Effat Nejati
Also known as Shahla Moharrami
Iranian; lived illegally in Toronto
Arrested August 1996; deported November 1996, to Britain.
Nejati assumed leadership of Mujahedin-e Khalq's (MEK) Canadian headquarters
in Toronto in 1995. CSIS says that after her illegal arrival in Canada in
January 1995, Nejati travelled across the country using false documents and
different aliases, raising funds, recruiting members and making travel
arrangements in support of MEK operations in Canada and Iran.
Robab Farahi-Mahdavieh
Iranian
Arrested 1992; deported March 1993, to Britain.
CSIS believes Farahi-Mahdavieh was the leader of the
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) in the United States and Canada. MEK is
a radical Marxist-Islamist group dedicated to the overthrow of the
theocratic regime in Iran. Farahi-Mahdavieh was suspected of having
organized the April 1992 mob attack on the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, just
hours after Iranian fighter jets bombed MEK military camps in Iraq.
Parvin Khassebaf
Iranian.
Arrested August 1993; deported September 1993, to France.
Khassebaf succeeded Farahi-Mahdavieh as the leader of
MEK. She arrived in Canada in July 1992 and was arrested after attempting to
return to Canada carrying false U.S. identification papers. CSIS documents
allege Khassebaf was responsible for fundraising and recruiting for MEK's
armed wing.
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