Preparing a report for Khorasan Radio and Television
A memoir by 1st Lieutenant Mohammad Mohtashamipour
Machine Translation Edited by Mandana Karimi
2026-9-15
One of our activities in the political ideology unit of the 77th Division of Khorasan was preparing reports and audio and video interviews for broadcast on television. We would go to different units of the division and interview the fighters. However, because the video camera in those years required direct electricity, we could not take it among the fighters on the front lines. We mostly used it to record ceremonies and speeches in the mosque trench. For this reason, most of the interviews were conducted using a voice recorder and sometimes with a rail-mounted video camera.
Then we would send the audio cassette of the interview and the film cassette by plane to Mashhad. After going through the technical procedures and converting it into a film that could be broadcast in the barracks, it would be delivered to Khorasan Radio and Television for use. This gradually became a regular program. Every day, a special program called "Khorasan on the Front" broadcast our reports from the front between 11:30 and 12:00. Our cooperation with this radio program continued from 1980 until the end of the war in 1988. During operations or calendar events, we interviewed the fighters and sent the tapes to Mashhad. In Mashhad, we also interviewed the families of the division's martyrs and kept the audio tapes in the archive or handed them over to the Khorasan Broadcasting Company. I remember the names of Mr. Fayazi and Mr. Choupan Kareh from my friends at the Iranian Broadcasting Company.
One day, we interviewed one of the division's fighters and the report of the interview was broadcast on the radio with a week's delay. The fighter's family came to the Iranian Broadcasting Company building and asked that he had been martyred a week ago. How did we hear his message on the radio today?!
From then on, at the beginning of the interview, we mentioned the date and time of the report. In total, about 500 hours of audio tape were recorded.
Source: Ramin Nejad, Ramin, Akkas-e Lashkar-e Khorasan; Khaterat-e Sotvan yekom Mohammad Mohtashamipour (Photographer of the Khorasan Army, Memoirs of First Lieutenant Mohammad Mohtashamipour), Kamyab Publishing House, 2018, p. 100
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