Iran - Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO)

The MKO is a 20,000-strong Iranian resistance force based in Iraq. But unlike other liberation groups, some 35 percent of the group's soldiers are women, as are nearly three-quarters of its officers. Training at Al-Ashraf Camp inside Iraq, just out of reach from Iran's howitzers, the fully armed MKO doesn't collect paychecks and bestows near-deity status to its female leader, Maryam Rajavi, whom the rebel group hopes to install as Iran's next president.

Have these folks got a chance against the mullahs? MKO troops have taken a vow of celibacy until Iran's government is toppled, so at least we know they're motivated. The MKO is one of the few armored liberation groups. The MKO can field 160 T-54/55 tanks (which they probably got from the Moscow military museum) and dozens of rocket launchers, APCs, towed howitzers and even attack helicopters. Even so, these guys and gals are more talk than action.The organization was 50,000 strong after the Islamic revolution, with nearly half a million supporters. About 5,000 activists have been executed in the government's crackdown, and more than 25,000 imprisoned. They lost a lot of kudos fighting against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. After the cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, the mujahedin invaded Iran but were crushed by the Iranian armed forces.

National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCR)

Based in the United States, the NCR is the spoutpiece of the MKO. It's all a bit silly really, because the MKO is supported by that well-known U.S ally in the region, Saddam Hussein. Remember him? So here we can almost sum up U.S. foreign policy in the region: The NCR does lots of lobbying in Congress. The NCR is the political wing of an organization (the MKO) that the State Department has blacklisted as a terrorist organization. The said "terrorist" organization operates from Baghdad. But its politicos raise cash to overthrow the mullahs. Yeah, something's definitely wrong here.

http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/countries/iran.html

Khomeini Money

In 1989 the Iranian government used its official government currency presses to print the first of about $10 billion in counterfeit U.S. currency. The U.S. bills of 100-dollar denominations were originally used to finance terrorists in the Bekaa valley. There were little if any clues to the bills' origin (some say the zeroes have flattened tops).

The U.S. government estimates that there is around $400 billion in U.S. currency outside of the country. The paper used is the same paper used by the U.S. mint, and, in many cases, the bills cannot be detected even by optical scanners. The bills continue to appear, and have been spotted most recently in North Korea. In dangerous places where U.S. currency is the standard, DP has taken to carrying only 20s and not accepting any $100 bills printed in the'80s. The new $100 bill should solve this problem for now.