Deceiving the Officers in the Dress of Eulogy
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Rest House no. 13
Narrator: Colonel Mohammad Khosh Niat
In the year 1363(1984) and after a few months after our transfer to Mosul Camp, Haj Seyed Ali Akbar Aboutorabi came also there. He had been captured in the first days of the war. Earlier, we had heard a lot about him from the captives who had gone to the Intelligence Department and been tortured. We knew that a person ...Why did you come with this person?
The ceremony to honor Rezaees’ father was supposed to be held in England and I would go there along with Mr. Ghaffari and Mohtsham, but I went to Paris to do some work. We had an office in Paris which was run by a faithful person. He was responsible for writing, printing, duplicating and distributing the leaflets to different cities.Ali Gezersiz
Translated by Ruhollah Golmoradi
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Narrated by: Seyyed Ahmad Rasouli
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Anti-Ashura injection
"The camp is waiting to understand a new experience; it is a new feeling that he has never experienced before. Muharram's sadness can be heard from far away; the same days that carry the smell of sadness for every Iranian and of course for every non-Shia Iraqi, the beginning of a new lunar year. Hamid Ghorbani and several seniors of the rest homes are talking with Sergeant Sahib.SAVAK Cast a Black Shadow on the Law
It was anniversary of the 15th of Khordad (June 5, 1963), and Qom, especially Feyziyeh, had a different atmosphere. Every day, a notice and a tape of a speech arrived from Najaf, which was very encouraging; Imam [Khomeini] was specifically sensitive about memorializing this day, as he said after victory of the revolution, “The fifteenth of Khordad—we lost men with a strong will and young people left ...5
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