Excerpts from Oral Memories of Hajj Qasem Soleimani

Operation Fath ol-Mobin lasted ten days. We were in conflict with the Iraqis in Dasht-e Abbas. Kamarsorkh was in our hands and we controlled the area with the embankment we had built next to Imamzadeh. The Iraqis also retreated towards Abu Ghraib Strait. One of our companies survived. Most of the people were either wounded or died a martyr.

The First Revolutionary Committee in Mashhad

Keramat Mosque was the base in the first days of the revolution. In the sense that all the revolutionary guys gathered and concentrated in Keramat Mosque, and did everything like arresting those accused of collaborating with the previous regime. I was not directly involved in the arrests. Because I was at work in the morning and went to Keramat Mosque in the evening.

Memoirs of Mohammad Reza Sherkat Tootoonchi

The days of 9th and 10th of Dey 1357 9th of Dey

The shooting was intensified and some were injured and the rally broke up. With the help of a driver, we took five or six injured people to Shah Reza Hospital for seven or eight times. Thank God, the hospital had enough beds, because it was usual for the organizers of the rally to inform the medical staff of the hospitals that had joined the revolution a day in advance, and they vacated their beds.

Keep the Frame Right

My friends and I [Mohammad Hossein Matiei] was involved in the reproduction of the declaration. According to the anti-Savak pamphlets that Mr. Gholamreza Malik, one of the employees of the [Arak] machine factory, gave us to study, the number of people to do this work should be limited so that if one person was exposed, he would not have the ability to expose the others.

Student Declaration against Resurrection Party

In the 1974, we were in high school when the Shah announced the establishment of the Resurrection (Rastakhiz) Party. At that time, there were two radio stations operating in Iraq that reflected the voices of the fighters; one was the voice of the militant clergy and the other was the patriotic radio. We always used to listen to this radio in the evenings. Later, we found out that militant clergy radio was started and managed by Mr. Mahmoud Doai.

Imam’s daily schedule in Neauphle-le-Château

Part of memoirs of Haojjat al-Eslam Hadi Ghaffari

The Imam used to sit in the yard in the afternoons. Sometimes, this was sometimes done after sunset. There was an apple tree in the yard under which the Imam sat. This tree had been known as a symbol in Europe. And in interviews and news, this tree was mentioned regularly. The Imam was interviewing under this tree. He dealt with the journalists with patience. Anyone who had any questions asked.

Consequences of the Speech at the Ceremony of Lieutenant General Zargham

Time was passing slowly and every day brought a new incident for me, until one day I was summoned to the office of the head of the Taibad Security Organization, Mr. Sharfi. It should be noted that they said SAVAK has a wide range and is very powerful. Anyway, they wanted me. When I went to his office, he was quite respectful.

Bloody Muharram

There were staunch supporters of the Shah in some cities and if a revolutionary thing was carried out in Najafabad, we were sure that we would have problem in passing the town. If a passing car did not have a photo of the Shah on its windscreen, they broke the windscreen with stones. We also preempted and kept a two or five-Toman Shahanshahi bill on the windscreen. In the last one or two years of the Pahlavi's rule,

Teach the Servant of the Mosque

One of SAVAK's tricks was to crush the comrades’ resistance in any way and invite them to cooperate with him; both with violence and intimacy. One day I was also invited to work. It was eight o'clock in the morning. When I entered the door, the interrogator was sitting and got up to respect me and said: "Hello, Haj Agha. are you all right? God willing, I'm sorry that you had a bad time during this time.

A cut from memoirs of “Surrounded by Fire”

Memoirs of Palestinian physician from Tel al-Zaatar

Whenever the fuel oil was delivered to us, we started the water engine and drew as much water as possible from the well. The well water was tasteless. But anyway, there was water, water... that day I decided to visit the hospital in the daylight. I chose a way to reach the hospital. Mamdouh was also with me. Suddenly we found ourselves in a new area. Among the ruined houses, the bullets of enemy snipers
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