Haj Ahmad Metovaslian and a Hat belonged to Public Treasury

The village of Najjar near Paveh had a population of approximately one hundred and fifty sixty people; about 40 families. The first village after Paveh was towards Nowsud and did not have a very strategic military position; but we had to capture it to be able to go to the new direction. In the morning of one of the winter days of 1979, a number of non-native guards and honorary guards ...

Demonstrator killed in Arg Mosque

Once, we gathered in front of Tehran Bazaar, Arg Square, on the day of Ashura, and distributed leaflets inside the religious groups. These leaflets had a religious background and were effective on people. Even in one of the demonstrations in the month of Muharram, which was held under the pretext of the death of several mountaineer students, after the funeral ceremony held in the Arg mosque, we started walking from the front ...

An Intelligent Demonstration

The people of Kurdistan did not have the courage to attend the demonstration due to pressures the regime had put on them. Whenever there was a demonstration across the country, there was no news in Saqqez until we, as the exile who were 10 to 11 people, decided to hold a demonstration there. When we started to demonstrate, two-three police cars had turned on their lights and followed us along with ...

Mandatory Passing Score

Although I could stay for a longer time in London, I decided to come back to Iran when I finished my studies in England at the beginning of 1353 SH (1974). Patriotism obliged me not to stay abroad for even one extra day. I had to follow two important tasks when I would arrive Iran. First going to military service, then finding a job. After many searches, finally my application was accepted for ...

A section of the memories of Ramadan

Hamidreza Amini; Shahid Dehghan Primary School

This memory is related to one of the days of the holy month of Ramadan in 1988 in the Mosul camp in Iraq, which shows us the blessing of the holy month of Ramadan and its miracles. It was the 19th of the holy month of Ramadan and I and some of the comrades who were fasting according to the Quran, religion and tradition, and we were spending the days with the very ...

Feeling of suffocation in runnel

Translated by M. B. Khoshnevisan

Saturday and Sunday, 9th and 10th of Dey 1357 (December 30 and 31, 1978) had coincided with the first days of the lunar month of Safar 1399. It had been four or five days since we left the sit-in. The regime showed terrible and intimidating behaviors and confrontations. On the other hand, we also prepared a big rally, which ended at Khorasan Governorate. From the first days of the Dey, the Pahlavi ...

Letters of Fahimeh

The Seventh Letter

In the name of God who created us from soil, and gave us the choice between moving toward him or being a civilized animal. Hello to the proof of the truth (God) over the all places and times in the current time and the one who his lovers suffer from waiting for him like butterfly and leap for joy; hello to His righteous representative, the one who numerous mouths murmur his name in their last breaths and then be silent.

Memories of Women

Narrated by Seyyed Bibi Mousavi

I had a small child, my husband was also at the front. I heard that women go to Shahid Kalantari Hospital and wash the clothes of the wounded. I was so sad that I could not go. One day, a loudspeaker announced in the street that they need blankets and bedding for the hospital. I folded five or six clean sheets and put them on two blankets. I opened the tent and put it under my armpit.

A cut from memoirs of Masoumeh Ramhormozi

The last Thursday of the year 1359 in cemetery of martyrs

At the end of Esfand 1359 (March 1981), with the help of the hospital medics, we decided to plant a large number of greens in a large number of containers on the third floor of the hospital, which was practically abandoned and could not be used due to the bombings of the enemy, and we also prepared sweets and nuts and delivered our own gifts along with photos of the Imam for the combatants in Khorramshahr and Fayazieh fronts before the start of the new year.

Changing the Governor

I was invited to Tabriz University in Ramadhan (August-September) 1979. Firstly, a member of Islamic Association, Mr. Ahamad Khorram invited me {Hujjat al-Islam Hassan Hassanzadeh Kashmari}; it was supposed to speak from the pulpit in Qazi Mosque that SAVAK prevented. Finally, I had to go to Tabriz University to give a speech. Then they said, “you should have a letter from Mr. Shariatmadari.” After that, we had a private meeting with Muslim brothers of Tabriz University ...