Mehdi Abrishamchi

Mehdi Abrishamchi (Persian: مهدی ابریشم‌چی born in 1947 in Tehran) is an Iranian dissident political leader and high-ranking member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK).

[4] Abrishamchi came from a well-known anti-Shah bazaari family in Tehran, and participated in the June 5, 1963, demonstrations in Iran.

He became a member of Hojjatieh, and left it to join the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) in 1969.

[5][6] Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, he became one of the senior members of the MEK.

[1] Abrishamchi credited Massoud Rajavi for saving the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran after the "great schism".