Early on the morning of Friday, 17th of Shahrivar 1357 (September 17, 1978), I found myself in an area I was familiar with, unaware of the gathering that would form there and the intense reaction it would provoke. I had anticipated a march similar to previous days, so I ventured onto the street with a tape recorder I had brought back from my recent trip abroad.
Mehdi Khandan, the commander of the Meqdad Battalion, was also martyred. His troops said that 72 hours earlier, he had dreamed of his martyrdom and had a face-to-face encounter with God. At ten in the morning, we set off by car to scout the captured areas. We reached a grove where a road had been built. On the left side of the road, there were four trucks that had previously carried supplies ...
The history of thought and the transformations related to intellectual currents have always been fascinating to historians and enthusiasts of historical studies. The history of thought seeks to understand how ideas form, spread and evolve. Along this path, the thinkers themselves or their supporters and critics who have closely witnessed the development, expansion and transformation of the said ideas, ...
In the final days of Esfand (late March), news arrived from the Karbala Headquarters instructing us to swiftly dismantle all our installations and proceed toward the western front. The announcement was both abrupt and unexpected. Our first destination was Ahvaz, where we were to receive further instructions. Brother Jokar was entrusted with leading the first convoy, while I was to assume responsibility ...
The book "Oral History of Sacred Defense: The Narrative of Mohammad Reza Eidi Attarzadeh" written by Mohammad Reza Moshfeghi Khamenei and edited by Abbas Abdolmalaki, was published by the Sacred Defense Documents and Research Center in 2024. Mohammad Reza Attarzadeh was born on November 23, 1959 in Dezful.
A few days after being summoned to the Tuyserkan police station and threatened by its chief, they handed us a letter from Qom. The letter was from a commission that had originally signed the exile orders for 26 people. It stated that we should pack our belongings and go from Tuyserkan to Mahabad to continue our exile. It was mid-summer, 1354 (late August 1975) when we had to move.
There wasn't much to do in the camp, as we spent our time learning to swim in the river nearby. The number of the wounded in emergency ward fluctuated depending on the movements in Iraq, sometimes there were few and other times many, which left us with little to do. After a while, I went to Tehran for some time off. When I returned, I was ...
Based on the assessments I had made, I decided to run away again, and this runaway was a public announcement to hurt the morale of other soldiers. So I thought that when I run away from my unit with this job and that situation, this would have more effect than a hundred circulars and announcements, and it would be published sooner and reach everyone, and everyone would publicly understand that among ...
It was after the meeting that I stood with Asghar Kazemi, the operations officer, and, acting on Rashid’s orders, we set out to locate a site for Fath Headquarters—approximately fifty kilometers from Ahvaz in the direction of Abadan, near a village called Khezriyeh, situated to the east of the Karun River; precisely the region that constituted the operational domain of the Fath Command.
As Operation Fath-ol-Mobin came to an end, the commanders gathered at the “Montazeran-e Shahadat” Base, thrilled by a huge and, to some extent, astonishing victory achieved in such a short time. They were already bracing themselves for the next battle. It is no exaggeration to say that this operation solidified an unprecedented friendship between the Army and IRGC commanders.
The scorching cold breeze of the midnight made its way under my wet clothes and I shivered. The artillery fire did not stop. Ali Donyadideh and Hassan Moghimi were in front. The rest were behind us. So ruthlessly that it was as if we were on our own soil. Before we had even settled in at the three-way intersection of the Faw-Basra-Umm al-Qasr road, an Iraqi jeep appeared in front of us.
Here I remember something that breaks the continuity, and I have to say it because I may forget it later. In Evin Prison, due to the special position that we and our brothers held and our belief in following the line of Marja’eiyat [sources of emulation] and the Imam, we had many differences with the Mujahedin.
According to the Iranian Oral History website, the “Conclusion of the Fourth National Conference on the Oral History of the Sacred Defense and Resistance” was held on Saturday morning, March 24, 2025, in the presence of oral history activists, in the Qalam Hall of the ...
