Memories of Mohammad Boloori

Machine Translation Edited by Mandana Karimi

2026-9-30

Mohammad Boloori, a veteran of the Holy Defense era and author of the book "Taksi servis baraye faw (Taxi Service for the FAW)", was a guest on the 289^th program of the Shab-e Khatereh (Night of Remembrance) (March 2018). He narrated some memories about Jassim stream (Nahr-e Jassim). Boloori said: "I want to take you 31 years back in time, to the winter of 1987; time, Sunday - February 22, 1987 20:50, place, Shalamcheh, Nahr Jassim, southeast side of Daryacheh Mahi lake. The area's characteristic was its extraordinary complexity. Nahr Jassim became known as Jassim Fortress and changed hands between us and the Iraqis many times. The last operational battalion before the Ya Zahra (S) battalion, which was our battalion, was the Imam Sajjad (PBUH) battalion. The bodies of the martyrs of that battalion remained in the area until finally, the battalion or Zahra (s) entered the area on that memorable night and had the final say. We had stopped time at 20 and 50 minutes, now we are unstopping it. I quickly ran towards our trench, while the Iraqis had been illuminating the sky of the area for a few minutes and were mowing the area with artillery and machine guns. I walked hunched over towards our trench. I entered, but there was no one. I realized that the children had set off. I quickly threw the sling over my shoulder, locked the fan on my back, took the RPG backpack on my shoulder, picked up my weapon and ran out of the trench. I looked left and right. Ten meters to the left, I saw the end of the column of children. I was the seventh person from the head of the column. While I had thrown the RPG backpack over my shoulder and locked its buckle on my chest, I set off next to the column to reach my place. Somehow, I found Zarei, I was his RPG assistant. I sat behind him. About five minutes later, the sky in the area was clear and we were ready for the operation. At this very moment, Mohammad Reza Turjizadeh, the commander of Zulfiqar Company, the line-breaking company of the Zahra (S) Battalion, was standing on the embankment, in his famous manner, with his right foot on the embankment and his left leg propped up, his left hand on his waist, looking into the depths of the night. This was while we were all clinging to the ground to protect ourselves from the machine guns. At exactly 9:00 PM, the operation code was announced over the wireless. All eyes turned to Turji, and he was still looking into the night. The announcement of the operation code over the wireless means that the operating units must be released from the release point and go on a mission. One of the units was us, another unit was a battalion of the 27^th Division of Muhammad Rasulullah (S) that was supposed to come from the opposite direction and join us. From the machine gun fire that was targeting the release point, it was clear that the operation had been leaked. Let us look at this narrative next.

So far, 383 programs of the Holy Defense Shab-e Khatereh (Night of Remembrance) have been held by the Center for Studies and Research on Culture and Literature of Sustainability and the Office of Literature and Art of Resistance of the Arts Center. The next program will be held on Thursday, October 29, 2026.

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