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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Maziar Motamedi

Former MEK leader Massoud Rajavi died under US guard, say Iran media

Rajavi, seen here in Iraq in 1994, led an armed assault on Iranian soil with Saddam Hussein's backing, but was defeated [Antonio Ribiera/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images]

Tehran, Iran – Massoud Rajavi, the long-thought-dead former leader of a group that Iran considers a “terrorist” organisation, actually died three years ago of health issues under United States supervision, according to Iranian media reports.

The former leader of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), born in 1948, died of a heart attack after years of illness, according to a report by the state-linked Tasnim news website, which quoted an unnamed security official on Sunday.

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