Source : WordNet®

MEK
     n : 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 anti-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}, {People's
         Mujahidin of Iran}]