Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs (64)

Edited by Mohsen Kazemi

Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs (64)
Edited by Mohsen Kazemi
Soureh Mehr Publishing Company
(Original Text in Persian, 2000)
Translated by Mohammad Karimi

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During the very first meeting I explained all the betraying events I had passed behind. By his reactions and words I found out that he was more informed than me. I told him: “Right now, I am totally separated from MKO and I am in danger of MKO and SAVAK together. I would possibly be arrested or assassinated. The late Andarzgou (1) said: “Ahmad! Do not worry. Trust God and stay with him. Agha (Imam Khomeini) is aware of all these events.” I said: “Haj Agha! This is foal that is taken up on the roof by us and now when it has become a donkey we do not know how to bring it down. They are colorful snakes grown in our home!”
Haj Agha asked: “Don’t you have any contacts with MKO right now?” I said: “Coordinated with the comrades (Eslami, Rafighdoost and Heydari), I still have some rendezvous and contacts with Mohsen Tarighat and get some information from him.” I explained that Farhad Safa and Moshen Tarighat had created a religious branch. The late Andarzgou said: “Take care! Do not go on the rendezvous anymore. This time if go there, they would kill you. Suggest them to come out of MKO to cooperate with each other. If they really do it, we would help them too. Whatever arms you need, we would afford.” I said: “Haj Agha! I do not have any arms to defend myself except two cyanide capsules.” Suddenly the late Andarzgou took out a gun, loaded it and triggered. Hearing the sound of trigger I jumped up. Haj Agha said: “Don’t be afraid. It’s nothing. Trust in God. I have divined by Koran to accept you or not. It was good. It will end well, so do not be afraid. Do not brood. Nothing will happen to you.” Of course, I was not afraid. I was just shocked by hearing the sudden sound of gun. By it was good because I could hear those nice words by him.
The late Andarzgou reaaly believed in divining by Koran. He would do most of his affairs by divining. For the next appointments that I had with him, he would come for some and not for some others and when I would ask him why he did not come he would answer it had been because of divining.
On the first visit, Andarzgou gave me a Colt Pistol 7.65mm with two cartridge clips. He insisted do not get involved in collide or using that gun as much as possible.
After that meeting I made close relation with the late Andarzgou. My contacts with him were different with others. I did not even need every eight hours contact or signaling my health. He would say for example ten days from now to be in a place at some hour. He did not even specify any particular place; he would only tell me enter form north and get out from south and do not think about anything else. Sometimes, I would think that he was not coming but few days later he would report my presence in full detail.
Sometimes I would call Haj Ali Heydari and tell him that I wanted some fruits. And he would tell me: “I would put it away for you, come and take it.” So, this way I would be informed of the place and time of meetings with Andarzgou. It never happened for me to visit him once in one of those appointments. We would always meet each other when going to the place of meeting or coming back. Once I went to Gorgan Street to visit him. I waited but he did not come and I returned to Zarrin-Na’l. I was passing an alley that I heard somebody saying: “Salam Aleykom! [Hello!]” It was him; the late Andarzgou. I found out that he had been checking me from the place of appointment till there.
The late Andarzgou tactic was like this that he would choose the places for meeting where he would now some shopkeepers or stand holders. The people who knew him had the information of individuals related to him and would check and monitor them. Then they would report the matter to Andarzgou. For example they would say: “That person came and waited for 20 minutes and then went away.” Using this tactic, Andarzgou had confused SAVAK. He would never be entrapped. Sometimes a stand holder or a beggar was an agent of him. Nobody would think of the tricks he would make.
In the last visits I found out that shopkeepers were looking at me in a different way. Since I felt that I was quite normal it was questionable to me that why they were looking at me like that. Sometimes he would not come for appointments and through these people he would be informed of my health.
The late Andarzgou would present a new figure each time I met him. He would use different clothes; from skull-cap to hat and from suit and trousers to topcoat and from clergy suit to Arabic clothes. Sometimes he was bearded and sometimes beardless, sometimes wearing glasses and sometimes not and….
Saving a friend
 Ali Mirza Ja’far Allaf (Parviz) was one of early burned papers of the evil book of MKO. He not only lost his post, money, social status for MKO, but also had to separate from the wife he loved because of satanic temptations of MKO. I also was hurt like this, even worse; MKO could take my wife from me forever through creating unreal personality in her by hollow responsibilities and titles.
The sad destiny of Parviz and my wife was something that had occupied my mind and would never go away. One day, when thinking about them, I remembered a sentence by Iraj: “You are a dogmatic person. We have few people like you. One of them was also married and had been in prison for eight years. His wife also has progressive ideas and is going to join MKO.” Remembering this sentence was like a sledge hammer on my head. Suddenly I remembered among the people in INP (Islamic Nations People) there were few people who had been sentenced to 8 years in prison; including Mohammad Hassan Ebn-ul-Reza and Nasser Naraghi. I thought then person Iraj was talking about was possibly the late Naraghi. I decided to go and visit him and inform him about the truths I knew. I went to his house several times. Since his wife did not know me and I would not introduce myself, she would tell that he was not at home; maybe she thought that I was a SAVAK agent.
Finally once I introduced myself and told her that I was friend of him. She went to tell him. Minutes later Nasser came out with bare feet to the door. We got really happy of visiting each other and hugged each other. He invited me inside his house persistently. I told him: “Nasser! I am separated from MKO and if become entrapped they would kill me; I do not know how is your situation? Have you joined MKO or not? And if yes, would you squeal me or not? Something heavy on my heart made me come here to talk to you. I have endangered myself by coming here because I hoped that you would not be in MKO. You are a Muslim and we both have been in prison together twice….” After this introductory speech I narrated for him the story of Fatima and my kids. He felt really sorry. When I felt that my words had been effective on him, I said: “Nasser! It seems that you have the same story?” He said: “How come?!” I said: “Iraj talked about a person who had been in Prison for eight years; someone who is dogmatic but his wife is a progressive and open-minded (!) lady. I guessed he should be you.” Nasser got upset and sad. After a silence he said: “Yes, it’s me. God damn them. Ahmad! They are doing the same thing to me. I do not know what to do?” I said: “I tell you what to do to be free of their trap; leave them at once! Stand strongly and do not let you wife leave you. Talk to her and tell her my story.” That day I talked with Nasser for a long time and tried to give him some hope.
I went to the late Naraghi’s house several times and talked with him and his wife in full detail. I expressed all the genocides that had been made by MKO. After these meetings and talks, finally his wife left MKO by her own wish. This couple cut their relations with MKO and could save their life. (2)
 

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1- Seyyed Ali Andarzgou was in November 1937 in a religious family in southern Tehran. After elementary school he had to interrupt his studying at school and work in Bazaar. Since he was a not person to stop learning went to the local mosque and began learning seminary courses there. During this period he joined the military branch of Coalition Councils and after the assassination of Hassan Ali Mansour, he went to Qum and then Najaf to continue his studies. After returning from Iraq he continued his seminary studies in Qum and became student of Ayatollah Meshkini and Makarem Shirazi. Since he was wanted by SAVAK, he introduced himself in Qum as Sheikh Abbas Tehrani. However, he was identified because of his activities. So, he moved to Chizar, a village in Shemiran in north of Tehran and continued his studies with Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Asghar Hashemi. After some time, he moved to Mashhad and settled there and this way could have some trips to Afghanistan.
Andarzgou married at the age of 27. However, after a short time, he separated from his wife when he was fleeing after Mansour’s assassination. Later he married with Mr. Ezzat-ullah Seyl Sepour’s daughter. They became the parents of four sons.
Through the late Mohammad Mofidi, the late Andarzgou made contacts with Hezbollah Organization and through the late Ahmad Rezaei he could get in touch with MKO. When MKO announced its Marxistic positions after the ideology change in 1975 and Madjid Sharif and Morteza Samadiyyeh Labbaf were killed, Andarzgou was enlisted as one the figures whom MKO wanted to assassinate because of insisting on him Islamic believes.
Finally Andarzgou was identifies and was killed by SAVAK on August 24th 1978 in Iran Street. His other pseudonyms are: 1- Sheikh Abbas Tehrani 2- Dr. Seyyed Hussein Husseini 3- Abul-Qassem Vase’i 4- Abd-ul-Karim Sepehrnia 5- Abul-Hassan Nahvi 6- Mohammad Hussein Joharchi 7- Javadi
2- Maryam Maslehatjou, wife of Nasser Naraghi says in her memories: “…he [Nasser Naraghi] from 1965, when I was 14, would live in our house as a tenant. The same year he was arrested and my father went to visit him in prison several times. When he was freed in 1973, we married each other. We move to Narmak district (in east of Tehran) to begin our new life. There, we made contacts with MKO through Mohsen Tarighat. On those days I would study 14 hours aday. Books like: The Red Yellows, Papillon, Shenakht (Understanding) and the books by Dr. Shariati. We would type MKO statements in our home. We would go to appointed places and tick our health mark. We also would keep some arms and ammunition at home. Until one day that Mr. Ahmad ringed the bell of our house. I did not know him. He introduced himself with pseudonym of Mr. Akbari and aksed about Mr. Naraghi. When I saw him I was afraid. I thought he was from SAVAK. I said Nasser was not at home. When the late Nasser came back from work that night, I told him that somebody had come and introduced himself as Ahmad Akbari. The same night we put all the documents and book in the car and went toward my mather-in-law’s house in Ahmad Abad of Karaj. On the way we thought that he may be following us. So, we stopped the car and threw all the books and documents in the river and stayed in Ahmad Abad for three days. When we were back, Mr. Ahmad came again and this time introduced him as Ahmad Ahmad. Those years Mr. Ahmad had chosen the secret life and was living team-houses. Through Mr. Ahmad, we were informed that MKO members had changed to Marxists. So, we left tem and did not continue our activity….”

 
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