Memoirs of Marzieh Hadidchi (Dabbagh) (Part 49)

2018-7-17

Memoirs of Marzieh Hadidchi (Dabbagh) (Part 49)

Edited by: Mohsen Kazemi

Tehran, Sooreh Mehr Publications Company

‎2002 (Persian Version)‎

Translated by: Zahra Hosseinian

The Deceived

When the regions of the counterrevolutionaries fell into the hands of loyal forces of the regime and revolution, and the regions were cleaned from these combatants, the counterrevolutions got angry and embarked on terrible crimes against defenseless people and even the passersby and passengers; they took out their eyes and tongue, pulled their nails out, and so on.

Occasionally, all sorts of orgy tools and appliances, which suggested the highest point of their immorality, were found by IRGC brothers in counterrevolution’s places and trenches. In an attack on one of their locations, about 25 girls and boys were arrested. I visited them in prison. The girls were between sixteen to twenty four years old. Also I saw the tools and appliances which were collected from their trenches, such as birth control pills, obscene pictures, gambling supplies, and so on.

I spoke with the girls a few minutes. Their condition was terrible, they were grossly deceived, and they had committed abominable acts and justified their behavior by giving some reasons. ‘If we did not give satisfaction to the men of our group,’ they said, ‘they might develop mental illness and condemn themselves. By doing this, we satisfied our natural needs and also gave them peace of mind and bolster them up to attend and be active in the main scenes and various missions and operations, and ...’

These deceived girls and boys had fallen into bad abyss, and continuously justified all of their acts, and they believed that it is permissible to do everything to achieve the goal ["The end justifies the means."]

I spoke with these girls and guided them. They accepted most of my words and regretted. When we decided to send some of them - who had not infected by any crime and had repented - to their home, their family did not accept. They came from different cities, such as Rasht, Tabriz, Tehran, and Shiraz. I called a family in Tabriz and spoke about their daughter. ‘We are an honored family in our city,’ they said, ‘don’t talk about her. If she returns, our dignity among family will be destroyed. You yourself solve the problem.  Put your mind at ease. We have said that our daughter has been killed in a clash.’

See the depth of the disaster, so that a family doesn’t want to accept its own member and bring her back to the home.

Fortunately, little by little, some of the young people who had been deceived by the counterrevolutionaries and joined them, regretted and returned, but some of them were killed in clashes, and or, over time, the active small groups in that area left alone and they were destroyed.

Breaking the Siege of Paveh

Paveh was one of the cities where was completely occupied by the counter-revolutionary groups, and the irregular attacks of the fellows of the Revolution were in vain. The strategic points of the city and its surroundings were totally in the hands of the counter-revolution.

The martyr Chamran and his men were pioneers in liberating the city, and during the siege, he lost his best comrades.

The first group and troops who ran to help him was the IRGC of Hamadan. At that time, we were eager to do something to liberate all the cities of Kurdistan from the counterrevolutionaries, especially Paveh, but our facilities and equipment were limited and even we were few in numbers. To fight the enemies, we met and discussed with brothers and authorities to get facilities and equipment, but it was not useful. At that time, the army was under the supervision of Bani-Sadr and he did not cooperate with IRGC. They even refused to be a little helpful and to do some technical works. We needed weapons and ammunition, but they refused to provide any kind of them. On the one hand, hearing the news of the consolidation of the counter-revolution in some parts of the west of the country, and on the other hand, the lack of any kind of help had put us in hardships and dire straits. Until it was inevitably raised in a meeting: "now that we need weapons and the army has weapons and equipment and refuses to help us; we should attack their arsenal at night and take some weapons and cartridges, because we need weapons for fighting against our enemy."

The raised issue challenged the meeting, but at the end everyone was convinced that such an attack was necessary. Then the proposal was approved, and all agreed not to speak about this decision out of here, lest Imam Khomeini to be informed. Because we were sure that Imam would oppose and consider it a divisive at, and he maybe even refer to it as an act of weakening the army. Therefore, we decided to make the plan in action at a specified time and not to say anything until that time.

First, we prepared 45 men of our group for dispatching to Kurdistan, and at the same time, we coordinated with a number of them to attack the arsenal of army before the group moved to the region. It was 3:00 a.m., we were preparing for our plan, when one of observers reported that a military column was moving towards us. We were worried that they might be the Komala group who discovered our plan and they wanted to attack us surprisingly, so that we could not get the target. We sent two people to the other side very quickly for identifying and acquisition of accurate information. They returned very fast and said, "Don’t worry, they are armies!"

We welcomed them in that darkness and they arrived with two tanks and personnel carriers. Their commander came forward and said, ‘Imam had commanded last night that all military forces should embark to break the siege of Paveh within 24 hours and help the Guardians.’[1] He has ordered us to help and equip you.

I thanked God for resolving the problems before any action was taken. We asked the people who knew about the decision of that night to forget it and consider the decision null and void and we asked them not speak about it at all.

The army equipped us with a helicopter from the Army Air Corps, so eleven people were chosen in advance to get there as soon as possible. Interestingly, all members insisted on going with this group, so that they discussed about who goes with helicopter. There was bad news about Paveh and everyone knew that in this dispatch there was no return, yet they tried to overcome each other in this regard.

A Turkish-speaking man of our group who was from one of villages around Hamedan, who spoke Persian with difficulty, said to me in a thick accent: "sister Dabbagh! I will complain about you before Fatima (our Prophet's daughter) on the Day of Judgment and I'll say her that you don’t let me go!" Finally, I suggested drawing lots and they accepted. But when that Turkish-speaking brother didn’t win, he got very upset, looked down, went out, and burst into tears. "Sister Dabbagh! Let him go." One of the brothers named Qashami[2] came and said. I agreed, but I said he should be replaced with another one. Finally, one of the brothers accepted to be replaced with him. When the helicopter landed in Paveh in the circle of siege, this Turkish-speaking brother was the first one to get off. He had not still stepped on the ground when he was shot by the Komala and died a martyred.

This helicopter returned with the bodies of those brothers who would overtake each other for going to Paveh. They all martyred. Of course, we equipped the second helicopter and sent some others. It was targeted in the sky and became defective.

Finally, Paveh was liberated and cleaned from the stain of revolution enemy by the brave people who had run there amorously and impatiently to obey their Imam’s command[3].

To be continued…