[1]. ‘... more tasks were done which were collecting the news of the movement in Iran and other countries by the phones that they had, then sending Imam’s messages and announcements to Iran and other countries (this small seven some group that did not like to be known were: Farhad, Hasan, Javad, Reza, Mohsen, Hamid, and Massoud..." (Report of Rasoul Sadr-Ameli from Imam's residence in France to Tehran, Etela’at press, No. 15775, Saturday, February 3, 1979).

[2]. In Islamic law, najis (Arabic: نجس‎) are things or persons regarded as ritually unclean.

[3]. Mohammad Yazdanian, Dr. Mahboubeh Afraz’s husband, son of Ali Akbar, was born in Kashan in December 1948. He joined the MKO at Sharif University of Technology (Ariamehr), and after the ideology of the organization changed in 1975, he was in charge of Middle East section of organization. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Yazdanian was arrested and was executed in August 1983, when he was active in ‘Peykar’ Organization.

[4]. Ali Akbar Salimi Jahromi (Afraz sisters’ cousin) was born in 1938 in Jahrom. He was one of the political militants who spent some time in exile and prison. On June 28^th 1981, he, as secretary general of Department of State for Administration and Employment Affairs, was martyred in the explosion of the Islamic Republic Party bureau.

[5]. In an interview, Mrs. Gohar-al-sharia Dastgheib has said about Afraz sisters: "About the character of Mrs. Rafa’at Afraz, I can say that she was a devout and faithful woman who was strictly adhere to the Quran's edicts. She came from a religious family. Especially after coming to Tehran and attending in martyr Rajai’s meetings and also coming and going to the Hedayat mosque, where Mr. Taleghani was its religious leader, she was interested in Islamic movements and developed. She was clever and efficient. She studied at the Law School and served at the Refah School. We knew each other many years before the revolution, because she was familiar with my husband’s family, but when they came from Jahrom and we came from Abadan to Tehran, our socializing increased. Thanks to her and also the insistence of Mr. Rajai and Bahonar, I went to the Refah School too. Although she had a weak and impotent body, but her intellectual power, faith and conviction made her to be very active and motivated. She was wiser and more alert than it was expected. Mr. Rajai was very trusted in her. She was very interested in the Qur'an and worked in the field of commentary and also worked on Nahj al-Balagha. Many times her mother mentioned that she was awake at night and not to sleep. She was an informed person and well-functioned. She impressed on teachers and studied on them. Considering her insight about Islam, when we heard that she has been considered as Marxist, we became very worried because it seemed very unlikely. We began to search when we heard that, [...]. After the revolution, the Marxist groups worked hard to attribute the active people to themselves. She was close to be sacrificed in this way. I searched about her, [and] martyr Salimi also made some inquires, and in a book [...] it was stated that a person [Torab Haghshenas] who was beside her at the time of her dying, has said that Rafa’at has declared the Shahada. Knowing her history, the change of her stance seemed unlikely; or I heard a lot of people said that she was sent to Dhofar because she was not willing to change her stance. After the revolution, Mr. Rajai defended her hard and considered her a Muslim, and he insisted that a ceremony was held in commemoration of her. Mr. Rajai, who had heard hypocrites’ defensive words and expressions in prison and also had heard somethings from Taghi Shahram [...], clearly and decisively declared that she has died unjust, but as a Muslim. And about her sister, Mahboubeh Afraz [I should say] that she was very harmless, devout, calm, informed, and pious. She had high scientific degrees and although she was two years younger, but she was the top student in her field (medicine in University of Tehran). Until the last year when she taught biology in the Refah high school, I knew that she was Muslim and school authorities and her colleagues and students trusted in her and she was sinless in every respect. But now I can’t say certainty that those days, when she wanted to go abroad, she was still Muslim or changed her stance. What I can say is that when Mr. Salimi went to Paris for her funeral, I obliged him to ask if she has died as a Muslim, we attend in her burial and memorial service, otherwise, if she has been a Marxist, we will not attend. He then telephoned me and said that she had been as I wished, and then he wrote a letter in which informed me she has passed away. Mahboubeh even had decided to come to Iran and had gone to Imam’s house in Paris several times and had been severely impressed by him. She changed, of course, her stance. I do not know that she had changed her stance when she was in Iran or when she was going to abroad. But later she converted to Islam and expressed her interest in the Islamic movements of the people and the slogans. The Marxists of the organization poisoned her by her husband, because they had found out that she was going to come to Iran." (Message of the Revolution; No. 165; July 5, 1986; pp. 46-47)

Mrs. Behjat Afraz, head of department of prisoners and missing persons in Hilal Ahmar, said: “My sisters, Rafa’at and Mahboubeh were pursuing a sacred goal in fighting, which was overthrow of the dictatorial and authoritarian regime of the Shah and establishment of the Islamic system. My sister, Rafa’at was very pious. She lived simple and was a good thinker and ascetic and she spent the night in prayer. And the atheist elements of the MOK martyred her for persevering in her beliefs on August 30, 1975. And my other sister, Mahboubeh, was martyred unfair in Paris in November 1978.”