MEK
n 1: a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of
Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran's
pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to
communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and
Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who
deposed the Shah [syn: {Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization},
{MKO}, {MEK}, {People's Mujahidin of Iran}]