Ahead of the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), Resistance Units in Zahedan carried out a campaign of installing banners and displaying leaflets across the city, marking the occasion with messages about the organization’s history, its founders, and its struggle against dictatorship.
The activities took place ahead of September 6, 2026, the anniversary of the PMOI’s founding. The banners carried messages from Maryam Rajavi and Massoud Rajavi, celebrated the organization’s founders, and highlighted slogans including “61 years of struggle,” “neither Shah nor Sheikh,” and calls for freedom and a democratic republic.
Through the campaign, Resistance Units presented the anniversary not simply as a commemoration of the organization’s past but as a statement about its ongoing struggle inside Iran.
Sixty-one years of struggle against the Shah and the clerical regime
A central theme of the Zahedan activities was the PMOI’s 61-year history of opposition to successive dictatorships.
One banner declared: “The PMOI means 61 years of ‘neither Shah nor mullahs,’ resistance and steadfastness, sacrifice and selflessness, struggle and perseverance.” Another described the organization’s history as “61 years of relentless and uninterrupted struggle against the dictatorships of the Shah and mullahs.”
Other messages connected that history directly to the political objectives promoted by the Resistance Units today. Among them were “No Shah, no mullahs—freedom and a democratic republic,” “We want neither Shah nor mullahs; curse the dictators,” and “From Zahedan to Tehran, death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Supreme Leader.”
