The Mahdi Servants Union

The group's leader Yasser Al-Habib is considered to be at "radical right-wing" of Kuwaiti spectrum.[3] He is hostile towards the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and has questioned the religious credentials of Ali Khamenei, Iran' Supreme Leader.[3] Al-Habib has also denounced Lebanese Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah as a "mubtadi (innovator [in religion])".[3] Among the few Shia figures the group approves is Sadiq al-Shirazi.[4] Al-Habib had studied under Mohammed Ridha al-Shirazi while he was in Qom[4] and is son-in-law of Mujtaba al-Shirazi.[5] He is thus regarded a partisan of al-Shirazi network (shiraziyyin) in Europe.[4] Members of the group follow Sadiq al-Shirazi as their Marja' (religious source of emulation).[2]

The group is anti-Sunni,[4] spreading through its satellite channel such propaganda, and also advocates insulting Umar and Aishah, a companion and a wife of the Prophet respectively.[3][4]

The group operates a satellite television named Fadak.[4]

In 2013, they purchased the site of a former church for £1.2 million and founded Al-Muhassin Mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire.[6]

On 10 March 2018, four members of the group armed with batons and daggers climbed on to a first-floor balcony of the Embassy of Iran, London, replacing the flag of Iran with that of their own group, in protest to arrest of Hussein al-Shirazi.[2] They were arrested by the Metropolitan Police.[2]

The group was behind production of the feature film The Lady of Heaven (2021), with a reported budget of $15 million.[7]

Khodam Al Mahdi Organisation (KMO) was founded on 23 February 2010[8] and subsequently registered as a charity by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 21 July 2010.[9] It was co-directed by four people, namely Adel Salah, Ali Shubber, Mohamed Salah and Yassir Fowjian, all British citizens.[8] The charity was legally dissolved on 10 April 2012 at the Companies House but remained active afterwards, continuing to raised money in the charity's name and buying a property.[10] After Charity Commission became aware of this, it launched a statutory inquiry into the organization[10] and on 7 April 2014 removed KMO from the list.[9] During its three years of legal existence from 2010 to 2012, the KMO had all filed financial documents declaring that its income and expenditure were both exactly £25,000.[10]

On 8 November 2017, a private company limited by shares named Khoddam Al Mahdi Organisation Ltd. was incorporated. The dormant company was wholly owned by Thamer Jundi Jassam, a Swedish citizen, who also served as its director. It was officially dissolved on 16 April 2019 via compulsory strike-off.[11]

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