Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (Marxist–Leninist) () was an Iranian

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organization. It was formed in opposition to the Shah regime in Iran. OCR(M-L) was founded in 1970 and it advocated against policies of

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, describing them as 'Khrushchevian Revisionism'. Instead it supported

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and his strategy of

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and

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. They adopted program that claimed that the ideology of the working class was ' Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought'. Later in 1976, OCR(M-L) merged with the ' Pooya Group', forming the

Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) The Union of Iranian Communists (UIC), unofficially translated as the League of Iranian Communists () and simply known by its former armed branch's name Sarbedaran (; ), was a Maoist organization in Iran. The UIC(S) was formed in 1976 after the a ...

. OCR(M-L) is regarded as an early part of the current Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist).

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