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TIL that Albania hosts the HQ of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), a formerly militarized, left-wing political group that was exiled from Iran in 1981. They opposed both the Shah of Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeini during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

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