The MEK terrorist group which now resides in France and Albania was the first initiator of suicide operations in western Asia before Al-Qaida and ISIS.
This terrorist group entitles perpetrators of suicide missions Sacred Martyrs. Released on September 5, 1985, Issue No.261 of Mojahed Magazine -main press organ of the MEK- introduced a few members of the group who carried out suicide operations in the 1980s and called them Martyrs of Freedom.
Gohar Adab Avaz
Mohammad Reza Ebrahimzadeh
Hadi Alavian
Majid Nikou
Ali Poorebrahimi
Mohammad Hossein Khodakarami
Mohammad Kazem Afjei
Vitana (Mitra) Joveini
Hossein Babaei