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Nine days had passed since the end of the holy month of Ramadan when we were taken captive in the scorching heat of June of Shalamcheh. We had to wait another eleven months to taste the taste of fasting in captivity in our second forced camp, Prison No. 16, near the city of Tikrit, Iraq. The real test, however, began in the hot months of spring. The long days of spring and the sweltering heat of Iraq ...A Recollection by Ali Tahiri of a Military maneuver
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.Memoir of the Brother of Martyr Hasheminejad
The Circumstances of His Martyrdom
On the 5th of Mehr 1360 (September 27, 1981), at the very moment when the enemy had suffered defeat in the siege of Abadan, the Monafeqin, at the command of the United States, sought to embitter this great victory of the Iranian nation. To that end, they assassinated Hojjat al-Islam Hasheminejad, intending to demonstrate to the world that they would never allow the Iranian people to taste victory.Excerpt from the Memoirs of Abdolmohammad Raoufinajad
Supporting the Reconnaissance Operations of Hassan Baqeri’s Team
Roughly three months before Operation Fath al-Mobin, Hassan Baqeri told me in one of the meetings held at the Golf headquarters in Ahvaz that two men from the command post were to arrive and conduct a general reconnaissance of the Dasht-e Abbas area. He emphasized that the reconnaissance team would operate directly under his supervision, ...3
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