Qadr nights in Tikrit’s number.16 concentration camp;
Spirituality as a Mechanism of Resistance
Qadr nights in Tikrit’s number.16 concentration camp was not just a religious ritual, rather it functioned as one of the most important mechanisms of identity protection, rehabilitation of spirit and inner resistance of POWs. In a situation that access to Quran, Mafatih and even conducting communal rituals was strictly limited and prohibited, this limit itself was altering the meaning of Qadr night for us.Excerpt from the Memoirs of Mohammad-Hadi Ardebilli
I registered for Konkour (university entrance exam), following the conclusion of high school. I was accepted into Tehran’s polytechnic (Amirkabir) university and began to study chemical and petrochemical engineering. There was a building named Jordan in the faculty in which religious students had prepared a small room as a house of prayer and did the noon and afternoon prayers in there.An Excerpt from the Memoirs of Masoumeh Ramhormozi
The Blessed Month of Ramadan at the Front
In August 1981, the enemy’s fifth column was active in the border villages, and reports of their movements frequently reached us. Several patients had come from the village of Bechachreh near Arvandkenar and told us about their hardships. The villagers lived with the barest means, and diseases were spreading widely among them.Fasting in Tikrit Prison No. 16; Test of Faith in the Heart of Hardship
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After completing various stages of military training and mastering a wide range of specialized skills, I served as a professional army officer and took part in numerous maneuvers and operations. Among these was an incident in 1961, when Engineer Malek-Abadi—then the first Minister of Reforms and a royal representative—was assassinated on the road from Shiraz to Firouzabad. In the aftermath of this event, the Shah ordered a large-scale military exercise in the region.The Sha‘baniyya Uprising as Narrated by Ali Tahiri
Observations of Iranian Journalists
Iraq shares common borders with six countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Kuwait—four Arab states and two non-Arab ones. At that time, with the exception of Jordan, none of these countries maintained friendly relations with the Iraqi government. In this context, Iran, Turkey, and Syria—having received the largest numbers of Iraqi refugees—played a particularly significant role.An Excerpt from the Memoirs of Mohammad-Hadi Ardabili
After finishing high school, I took the national university entrance exam and was admitted to the Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering program at Tehran Polytechnic (today’s Amirkabir University of Technology), where I began my studies. Within the faculty there was a building called Jordan. In this building, religious students had turned a small room into a prayer space, where they performed the noon and afternoon prayers.An Excerpt from the Memoirs of Mikail Ahmadzadeh
One night, while deploying a reconnaissance patrol, we detected enemy access routes advancing toward our own positions. Under the cover of darkness, they were moving forward to dig trenches. It appeared that the enemy was planning a limited operation against our forces—an action that could have posed a serious threat to the units stationed along the front line.Mohammad — The Messiah of Kurdistan
Boroujerdi immediately said to Darvish, “Ready a few men; we’re going.” Then he moved toward Mostafa, who was studying the Kurdistan map. Mostafa straightened his back and said, “During my service in the army I experienced a full-scale war in Kurdistan. Guerrilla warfare in Kurdistan follows its own rules. The anti-revolutionary commanders want to draw us into a battle chosen on their terms.”Memories of the wife of the martyr Seyyed Mohammad Ali Jahanara
About their wedding ceremony
Mohammad called and we talked about the date of the official wedding. We agreed to have a simple wedding at our house on August 31, which was also his birthday. Of course, this coincidence was by chance, not planned. On the morning of the wedding, Mohammad came.2
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