[1]. Ayatollah Seyyed Musa Sadr was born in Qom on June 4^th 1928 and spent the primary school and high school in the same city. He pursued his Islamic studies in Qom and Najaf seminary and benefited from the lessons of Imam Khomeini and other Ayatollahs, like Boroujerdi, Mohaghegh Da’amad, Kuhkamarei, Seyyed Ahmad Khansari, Allame Tabataba’i, Soltani Tabataba'i. He graduated in Economics at the University of Tehran. He knew Arabic, English and French. Imam Musa Sadr taught Islamic jurisprudence, principles, logic, and philosophy for some time in the Qom Seminary. After his father died in 1955, he went to Najaf and benefited from the lessons of great Ayatollahs, such as Seyyed Mohsen Hakim and Seyyed Abolqasem Khoyi until 1958. He returned to Iran in 1958, and published the first seminary Magazine called ‘the School of Islam’ in December, with the assistance of a number of scholars and some committed traders in Tehran. After the death of Ayatollah Seyyed Abdul Hussein Sharafoddin Sadr - the leader of Shiites in Lebanon - and according his will and invitation of all the Lebanese Shiites, Imam Musa Sadr immigrated to Lebanon with his family. He pursued his cultural, social, political and religious plans among the Shiites and called them to fight against Israel and Zionists by advertising the constructive concepts of Islam. He was able to carry out extensive activities in order to fulfill the high goals of Islam, such as: establishing the Supreme Council of the Shiites of Lebanon, founding the Amal Movement organization, establishing Amal organization (the military arm of Amal Movement organization against the Zionist’s offensives), the Jebel Amel Industrial Institute (for boys), Fatat house (for girls), Benefactors Society, Islamic Research Center, and etc. On March 14^th 1978, south Lebanon occupied by Zionist forces. Thus, in another part of his activities, Imam Musa Sadr began his periodic trips to various Arab countries (Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Libya) to open the eyes of people and their leaders to the woeful situation of Lebanon. He arrived in Libya on August 25^th 1978, and when he intended to leave for Italy, got lost along with two of his followers, Sheikh Mohammad Ya'qub and Abbas Badr-al-Din.

[2]. Aiming to found a center for Lebanese Shiites after few years of Imam Musa Sadr’s combating, the Shiite Supreme Court was approved in1969 in the Lebanon parliament. It has a religious board of nine clergymen and religious scholars and a twelve executive board elected by Shiites. [see Lebanon, Martyr Dr. Mostafa Chamran, Tehran, Martyr Chamran Foundation, 1983]

[3]. Dr. Mostafa Chamran was born in 1932 in Qom. He spent his elementary school at Ensarayieh School near Pamenar, and then went to Dar Al Fonoun high school, and with no charge spent the last two years of his studying at Alborz High School, during which he was always top student. In 1953, he was accepted by Tehran University in Electrical Engineering and was graduated with top grades in 1957. At the age of fifteen, he attended in the meetings of Quranic interpretation which was held by the late Ayatollah Taleghani in the Hedayat Mosque. Also, during student days, he attended in the sessions of philosophy and logic which was held by martyr Ayatollah Motahhari. He was an active member of the Islamic Student Association. In 1958, Chamran won a scholarship and went abroad and got MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Texas University and the Ph.D. in Electronics and Plasma Physics (Nuclear Graft) from the University of California, Berkeley. During his studies at US universities, he had a major role in the formation of student anti-regime organizations, in particular the Students' Islamic Association. He participated in most of societies and anti-regime national political movements. The monthly journal of ‘Andisheh Jebheh’ and the bulletin of the ‘American National Front’ were published by him and his friends. His other political activities were: various lectures in the students gathering of National Front and Islamic Student Association, publishing numerous articles with an assumed  or real name, taking part in ninety mile rally [Baltimore to Washington], participating in a hunger strike inside the chapel of United Nations due to protesting the arrest of Ayatollah Taleghani and his followers, having effective role in forming the demonstration of 1965 in front of Shah's hotel during his trip to the United States, and so on. After the bloody uprising of June 5, Chamran went to Egypt and spent the most difficult guerrilla and training courses and guerrilla warfare for two years; and then took the responsibility for training guerrilla warfare to Iranian fighters. He returned to the United States in 1968 (after the death of Jamal Abdel Nasser) and went to Lebanon by Imam Musa Sadr’s invitation in late 1971. He settled in the southernmost point of Lebanon, tyre, near the borders of Israel; and accepted to managing the Jebel Industrial School (and always was shoulder to shoulder of Imam Musa Sadr in all religious, cultural, political military movements). Chamran played an important role in setting up and organizing the military arm of ‘Amal Movement’. Eventually, Chamran returned to the homeland after twenty-two years when the revolution gained victory and immediately visited Imam Khomeini. He set up the first training courses of the Revolutionary Guard. He then was assigned as deputy of the prime minister in revolution affairs. Confronting the counter-revolution, the Paveh city of Kurdistan was rescued from the fall through epic of martyr Chamran and his followers; and then Novosud, Marivan, Baneh and Sardasht were liberated one after another. On November 7^th 1979, he was appointed to the Ministry of Defense by command of Imam; and he was elected by the people of Tehran for the first term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, and was the representative of Imam at the Supreme Council of Defense on behalf of him and also his consultant. Martyr Chamran formed the headquarters of irregular wars in Ahvaz when the war began and he himself bravely fought in the guerrilla warfare against the enemy. Eventually, he, who avoided the stillness, was martyred by the shrapnel of mortar on the back of his head in Dehlaviyeh region. [Based on the book proud Martyr, Dr. Mostafa Chamran, Imam's companions in the narrative of SAVAK documents, Tehran, publication of Historical Documentation center of Ministry of Intelligence, 1999]

[4].  For more information about Lebanon, see: Lebanon, Martyr Dr. Mostafa Chamran, Martyr Chamran Foundation, Tehran, 1984.