Demonstrator killed in Arg Mosque
Translated by M. B. Khoshnevisan
2023-4-25
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 of the mosque and the Golestan Palace and were moving towards Shapur Street (current Vahdat-e Eslami), but the police and the Imperial Guard forces attacked us. Seyed Nasser Mousavi (a classmate of the faculty, whose life and death later became a sad story) squeezed the throat of the policeman who was hitting the Seyed on the head with a colt and knocked him to the ground. In this mood, he shot at the students and a shooting happened. This took place in the year 1353 (1974). One of the guys, whose name was Hamid Khalili, was seriously injured on that day and it was said that he had been killed. We also tried to find and help one of my friends who is now in the judicial system (Mr. Gholamreza Salmasi) but we failed. We assumed that he had fallen on the ground and had been arrested. But when I returned to the university, I surprisingly saw him. We went inside the room. He showed his coat where the bullet had hit and burned his student card. But the shape of his body while moving and running away was in such a way that the bullet had come from this side of the coat and gone out from the other side, and it was probably the same bullet that had hit the late Khalili.
I was supposed to give a speech that day in the Arg mosque. The organizer said that the guard forces did not allow and were attacking inside the mosque. Therefore, the gathering broke up and the guys started chanting slogans. According to the previous appointment with the law students (Salmasi, Mousavi and Seyedi), a group moved to the Bazar, some to Toopkhaneh Square and Lalehzar, and a group moved to Shapur Square, which led to the shootings and the martyrdom and clashes to which I pointed. The next day, the second demonstration started again in the same place, where two of my comrades (Mahmoud Dehghan and Mohammad Bai) were arrested.
Source: From Tehran University to SAVAK's Place of Torture: Narration of student Struggles and Story of Anti-Sabotage Joint Committee, an interview with Jalal Rafi, Tehran, Iran Ebrat Museum. 1384 (2005), PP. 49-50
Number of Visits: 849
The latest
Most visited
Attack on Halabcheh narrated
With wet saliva, we are having the lunch which that loving Isfahani man gave us from the back of his van when he said goodbye in the city entrance. Adaspolo [lentils with rice] with yoghurt! We were just started having it when the plane dives, we go down and shelter behind the runnel, and a few moments later, when the plane raises up, we also raise our heads, and while eating, we see the high sides ...The Arab People Committee
Another event that happened in Khuzestan Province and I followed up was the Arab People Committee. One day, we were informed that the Arabs had set up a committee special for themselves. At that time, I had less information about the Arab People , but knew well that dividing the people into Arab and non-Arab was a harmful measure.Kak-e Khak
The book “Kak-e Khak” is the narration of Mohammad Reza Ahmadi (Haj Habib), a commander in Kurdistan fronts. It has been published by Sarv-e Sorkh Publications in 500 copies in spring of 1400 (2022) and in 574 pages. Fatemeh Ghanbari has edited the book and the interview was conducted with the cooperation of Hossein Zahmatkesh.Is oral history the words of people who have not been seen?
Some are of the view that oral history is useful because it is the words of people who have not been seen. It is meant by people who have not been seen, those who have not had any title or position. If we look at oral history from this point of view, it will be objected why the oral memories of famous people such as revolutionary leaders or war commanders are compiled.
