How to send Imam's announcements to Iran
Translated by Mandana Karimi
2025-6-4
[Narrator: Hojatoleslam Naseri] We were active in establishing relations with Iran on several fronts: receiving funds, sending tapes, sending announcements.
In the first part, the issue of funds, Hajj Sheikh Nasrallah Khalkhali - who represented most of the religious authorities - was also the representative of Imam. In Najaf, there was a money exchange office that cooperated with the money exchange offices in Tehran. Some of the funds were exchanged through him. Some of the funds were brought by pilgrims and delivered under a code name, and after delivery, we sent the receipts with a code. I was aware of some of these cases. Of course, sometimes Mr. Khalkhali would say that such an amount of money had arrived and I would go and get it and deliver it to Imam. The issue of transferring the tapes was that we would inform our contacts in Tehran that, for example, we would come to the house of such an old woman who was not sensitive to political matters late at night, and our contact would come and record her after establishing contact, and then the reproduction and distribution would be the responsibility of our friends in Tehran. Sometimes we would also embed the tapes. For example, I bought Valor lamps and wrapped the Islamic government tape around the neck inside them, then closed the tap and sent them.
Regarding sending the Imam's announcements, it was done in a different way. Sometimes we would embed them and have them brought to Iran - Tehran - by travelers. For example, we would give him a book and paste the announcement between the pages, and for example, we would paste two sheets of the announcement between a hundred books and send them, and in this way the announcements would reach Tehran with less risk.
Source: Imam Khomeini Editing and Publishing Institute (2010), Khaterat-e Sal-haye Najaf (Memories of the Najaf Years), Vol. 2, Tehran, Oruj, pp. 202 and 203.
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