Saeed Mohsen

Saeed Mohsen (; 1939 – 25 May 1972) was one of the founders of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), along with Mohammad Hanifnejad and Ali Asghar Badiezadegan, on 5 September 1965. Saeed Mohsen was arrested by the SAVAK in 1971 and executed on 25 May 1972, along with other founders and two members of the organization's central committee.

Early life Saeed Mohsen was born into a middle-class family in Zanjan. He completed his primary and secondary education in the same city and then came to Tehran to continue his studies and graduated in the field of facilities engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tehran. Saeed's student days coincided with the political upheavals of 1960–1963. Before founding the organization, Saeed had been imprisoned twice for his political activities, the second time was when he was a member of the Student Committee of the Freedom Movement of Iran and was arrested on the night of 21 January 1963. After his release from prison, he served as a military conscript in Jahrom. In his interrogations about the living conditions of the people of southern Iran, he writes:

After completing his military service, Saeed Mohsen went to Tehran and worked at an ARJ factory and then the Sepanta factory, and at the same time continued his political activities.

Founding the PMOI Saeed Mohsen, along with Mohammad Hanifnejad and Ali Asghar Badiezadegan, founded the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran on September 5, 1965. After the suppression of the demonstrations of June 5, 1963, they summed up the past political struggles and came to the conclusion that political and reformist struggles have always been suppressed by the dictatorship and do not achieve the desired result. From 1965 to 1971, they worked ideologically, organizationally, and strategically for six years.

In part of his defense at the military court, Saeed Mohsen said: "The Iranian nation is not obliged to follow a reactionary ideology. These laws are basically the result of the dictatorship and are not acceptable to the nation. Evolution requires that whatever is rotten is discarded. In an environment where people's rights are respected, people are crazy to take up arms. Weapons are a means of defending human dignity for us."

Execution After enduring months of torture, Saeed Mohsen was executed on May 25, 1972, along with other founders, Mohammad Hanifnejad and Ali Asghar Badiezadegan, and two members of the organization's headquarters, Abdolrasoul Meshkinfam and Mahmoud Askarizadeh.

His burial place is in Plot 33 of Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran.