The 339th Night of Memory -2

Mail Carrier

Compiled by: Sepideh Kholusian
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2023-6-10

Note: The 339th Night of Memory titled "Mail Carrier" was held on Thursday, September 29, 2022, with the presence of the Postbank family of the country in Soreh Hall of the Arts Hall presented by Dawood Salehi.

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The first narrator of the program, Mrs. Maryam Katebi continued her words about sending to Kurdestaan and said: We were told to be ready to go. Now we also take ammunition from the barracks and give it to you. Some men really don't know and don't have the art to please women. This Mr. Kermanshahi saw that we were afraid a lot, he gave us a grenade and said: yesterday the commander of Kermanshah's Komle was killed by our comrades on the road and the members of Komle are very angry. There is a possibility that you will be caught walking on this road.

Think about how that man consoled us with his advice. He said: You yourself know that there is a possibility that a thousand calamities will befall you. Have the grenade and be a duo together. If they catch you, gather four-five of them and pull the grenade. In this way, both of your enemies will be killed and you will kill four or five of them. I was thinking of doing something like this and killing both ourselves and them, I said: No, sir. We do not do these things at all and we are afraid. If we see a grenade, we will die. But that man said: No. you have to go. They will catch you today, and if they catch you now, don't waste grenades!

Narrator continued: We went to Sanandaj with difficulty. At the very beginning, we wanted to go to the Sanandaj barracks from the Governor's Street, which was located on a hill. Arrows passed by our ears and they kept telling us to zigzag and not move in a straight line. When we reached the barracks, I looked up and suddenly ran into a tall man with glasses and a blond beard. He was Mohammad. At that time, we did not know who he was, and as soon as he saw us, we said to him: Sir, They want to kill us! He said: No, sister, who do they want to kill? These are our brothers. (Six months after that incident, Broujerdi said that you were confused at that time and did not understand correctly. I said our own brothers, but why did you agree? Why did our own brothers have to attack us? Broujerdi said that they were attacking our forces and (We were defending. But you were scared and had to calm down.) You either go to Marivan or Paveh.

That gentleman had a very reasonable approach. In fact, both of them were men, but that previous gentleman in Kermanshah killed us with his words, and in that scene where they were beating us, Broujerdi said at that moment when we were scared: Don't be afraid, they are our brothers. We were really scared and thought they were going to kill us. But Broujerdi said: "No, don't worry." He originally wanted to send us to Marivan. He asked us: "Do you want to go to Marivan or to Paveh?" Finally, since there was no good news from Paveh, he took us to Marivan.

We went to Marivan by helicopter and when we got there, we met Mr. Ahmad Mutavaslian. As soon as we went there after three days, Mutavaslian said: Sister, why did you come? We said: We came to go to the hospital. We were told that the nurses are on strike because of the hijab and they don't wear headscarves. We are going to Marivan for a week. He said: We don't want you for the hospital. We want to provide the road. We said to ourselves: O God; everyone says the same thing. Finally, we told him: There is no problem. We are going. He said: Where? if you can We said: We are leaving tomorrow. Tavasuli, who was a friend of Ahmad, said: "Sisters, can you go?" The road is in the hands of Komle. So why did we bring you by helicopter? One of your tasks is providing road treatment.

Narrator go on to say: "We entered the city of Marivan in a really bad mood. But due to the sacrifices the comrades made and the things they did there, one week turned into eight months. We didn't have a phone to inform the family that we were in Marivan and what the families suffered during this time. We could not write a single letter or telegraph. There was no way to inform our families. I knew that Dr. Fayazbakhsh was visiting our families all the time, but our communication had been completely cut off and our families did not know if we had reached the city at all. No matter what we did, we could not write letters and deliver them to our families. Eight months later, I was able to go to Tehran.

Events that change can affect people at any point; like the difference in the behavior of those two brothers. My sister Sediqeh Sadeghian and I, who both said we would return and not stay here anymore, went to Marivan and saw so many good people in the region there that when we came to Tehran, when the family said that you will go to any front, don't go to the Kurdistan front, again. We liked to go there. This was a good behavior that we saw from the fighting comrades there.

When we were there and saw the behavior of the men, we stuck to the Marivan region and stayed until the great victories of Marivan happened. Bani Sadr made those mistakes in the region, and finally the IRGC said that two brigades of Muhammad Rasulullah (PBUH) should be formed and go to Kurdistan. With the good operations that were carried out in Kurdistan, now Iraq had deployed many forces in that region, unlike before. Ahmad took half of the children of Marivan to the south for the Fatah-ul-Mobin operation.

In Kurdistan, men were called by their first names, and we did not know many of the martyrs by their last names. We had several brothers, Muhammad, Ahmad, Ali, Asghar, Hossein, Reza, etc. Sometimes when I talked to the families of the martyrs of that area, I said that God is witness, we were there like sisters to our brothers. Whenever they went to an operation, we used to say, God, who else will be martyred in this operation? What will happen? Once we saw that the comrades all went to the operation in the south.

We didn't even have electricity at that time and we had a lot of trouble to get radio from the groups. We brought the radio and connected it to the wireless. On the second day of Eid, when we heard the message of the victory of Fatah al-Mobin on the radio and heard the imam say: "I kiss your arms..." We only thought that the victory was good, but who among the comrades were martyred?

The news arrived that Reza Cheraghi and Reza Qomi were martyred and Ahmed's brother is supposed to come on the 10th. On that day, we prepared a series of written cloths and offered our condolences to the brother Ahmed for the martyrdom of martyrs Qomi and Chiraghi. But once we saw a jeep come and Ahmed got out and someone put his cane down from the car. As soon as he put the cane down, he gently hit the foot of Asgari with this end of the cane.[1] He hit his feet and said: "Unscrupulous! Did you write my name with that bad handwriting as a martyr?" Everyone was filled with happiness when they saw Reza Chiraghi. We said: "Then who was martyred?" They said: "In that operation, Reza Qomi and his brother were martyred together." We were together; but I got out of the car somewhere." We were very happy about it.

To be continued…