“SATJA”—Sazman-e Enqelabi-e Todehay-e Jomhory-e Islami-e Iran—The People’s Revolutionary Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Abstract

As is well known, the Forqan were not the first group to fight Khomeini and his revolutionary colleagues at the outbreak of the revolution. The SATJA, another minor group barely known to the academic world, and probably even to the Iranian revolutionary groups at that time, also emerged during the Islamic revolution. They also did not see eye to eye with Khomeini’s political aims, but did not fight him as the Forqan did. The real dispute between these two groups took place under the surface and reflected another outlook on the revolution and its aims. A study of the SATJA—Sazman-e Enqelabi-e Todehay-e Jomhory-e Islami-e Iran—The People’s Revolutionary Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and its appearance at the time that Khomeini was trying to navigate his revolution to a safe harbor, could provide us with more insight and source material that could help us understand the revolutionary currents and forces that were acting side by side often, as in this case, unknowingly, to steer the ship of state that Khomeini was trying to navigate in the right direction.